1 maccabees meaning in General Dictionary
an Apocryphal book describing the life span of Judas Maccabaeus
Sentence Examples with the word 1 maccabees
In 1 Maccabees he is represented as writing an order to all his subjects to forsake the ways of their fathers and conform to a single prescribed pattern, and though in this form the account can hardly be 'exact, it does no doubt represent the spirit of his action.