Our signs] either God's miraculous interpositions, or Jewish religious customs such as sacrifice, circumcision, and sabbath-observance, all of which Antiochus Epiphanes forbade under the heaviest penalties: see 1Ma 1:45, 1Ma 1:48, 1Ma 1:50. No more any prophet, etc.] This hardly applies to the Babylonian capture of Jerusalem, when both Jeremiah and Ezekiel were alive, and when the former had foretold that the captivity would last 70 years. For the absence of prophets in the days of Antiochus Epiphanes see 1Ma 4:46; 1Ma 9:27; 1Ma 14:41.

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