The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . apparatus which the desolater of Jerusalemshould establish in the holy place. This appearsto have been a prediction of the pollution of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes, who caused anidolatrous altar to be built on the altar of burntofferings, whereon unclean things were offered toJupiter Olympius, to whom the temple itself wasdedicated. Josephus distinctly refers to this asthe accompli
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . apparatus which the desolater of Jerusalemshould establish in the holy place. This appearsto have been a prediction of the pollution of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes, who caused anidolatrous altar to be built on the altar of burntofferings, whereon unclean things were offered toJupiter Olympius, to whom the temple itself wasdedicated. Josephus distinctly refers to this asthe accomplishment of Daniels prophecy, as doesthe author of the first book of Maccabees, in de-claring that they set up the abomination of desola-tion upon the altar—uiKodo^ijo-av to @5t\vyna ttJs£pr)ixdio~em tnl rb OvffiacrTripiov (1 Mace, i:59; vi:7; 2Mace. vi:2-5; Joseph. Antiq. xii:5, 4; xii:7, 6). (5) Terms Quoted by Jesus. The phrase isquoted by Jesus in the form of the abomination ofdesolation (Matt. xxiv:is), and is appliedby him to what was to take place at the advanceof the Romans against Jerusalem. They who sawthe abomination of desolation standing in theholy place were enjoined to flee to the moun-. Roman Standards. tains. And this may with probability be re-ferred to the advance of the Roman army againstthe city with their image-crowned standards, towhich idolatrous honors were paid, and whichthe Jews regarded as idols. (6) Later Appearance. Nor was this the lastappearance of the abomination of desolation inthe holy place, for not only did Hadrian, withstudied insult to the Jews, set up the figure of aboar over the Bethlehem gate of the city (/EliaCapitolina), which rose upon the site and ruinsof Jerusalem (Euseb. Chron. 1. i., p. 45, ed. 1658),but he erected a temple to Jupiter upon the siteof the Jewish temple (Dion Cass. Ixix:i2), andcaused an image of himself to be set up in the partwhich answered to the most holy place (Nice-phorus Callist. iii 124). This was a consu
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