This is called and shall be the other book Maccabaeorum, as the title indicates. But this cannot be right, because it reports some history that happened before the first book, and comes no further than the Judam Maccabaeum, that is, until the
seventh chapter of the first book, that it should be called cheaper the first than the other, one wanted to call it then: "another book", and not the other book Maccabäorum, alium vel alienum scilicet, non secundum. But we let it go along like this, for the sake of the beautiful Ge-
. *) This preface is found in Walch, in the Leipzig edition, vol. XII, p. 53 and in the Erlanger, vol. 63, p. 106.
The story of the seven martyrs of Maccabeorum and their mother, and other pieces.
But it looks as if it was not one master, but patched together from many books. It also has a hard knot in the fourteenth chapter of Rasias, who strangled himself, which also challenges St. Augustine and the ancient fathers. For such an example is no good, and is not to be praised, even if it is patient.
and may well be interpreted. Thus, the first chapter describes the death of Antioch in a different way than the first book does.
3) Summa: As cheaply as the first book should be included in the number of the holy scriptures, so cheaply is this other book thrown out, even though there is something good in it. But all this is for the pious reader to judge and recognize.