Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 & 2 Maccabees
Author: last_name: Douay-Rheims Version (DRV)
Language: English
Year: 1609

These books are so called, because they contain the history of the people of God under the command of Judas Machabeus and his brethren: and he, as some will have it, was surnamed Machabeus, from carrying in his ensigns, or standards, those words of Exodus 15.11, Who is like to thee among the strong, O Lord: in which the initial letters, in the Hebrew, are M. C. B. E. I. It is not known who is the author of these books. But as to their authority, though they are not received by the Jews, saith St