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MacCaghwell, Hugh (Cavellus). Archbishop and theologian, born at Saul, Co. Down, 1571; died 22 September, 1626. He received his earliest education in his native place and then passed to a famous school in the Isle of Man. On his return to Ireland he was selected by Hugh, Prince of Tyrone, as tutor to his sons … Continue reading “MacCaghwell, Hugh”

MacCaghwell (Lat. Cavellus), Hugh an Irish Franciscan of the 17th century, studied at Salamanca, and lectured at Louvain. Urban VIII appointed him archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland. He died September 22, 1626, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. He wrote, Scoti Commentaria in Quatuor Libros Sentt. ( Antwerp, 1620, 3 volumes): Apologia … Continue reading “MacCaghwell (Lat. Cavellus), Hugh”

Maccabees, The Third Book Of not given in the Romish Vulgate, the Apocrypha of the A. V., nor in Protestant versions generally, but still read in the Greek Church. I. Title and Position. This book is improperly called the third of Maccabees, since it does not at all record the exploits of the Maccabaean heroes, … Continue reading “Maccabees, The Third Book Of”

Maccabees, The Second Book Of according to the order of the Sept., which is followed both by the ancient versions and modern expositors of the Apocrypha. I. Position. This book ought, according to the historic order, to be the first of the Maccabees, because its narrative begins with an event which occurred in the reign … Continue reading “Maccabees, The Second Book Of”

Maccabees, The Fourth Book Of (B) Though it is certain that the foregoing book is that which old writers described, Sixtus Senensis (Biblia Sancta, p. 37, ed. 1575) gives a very interesting account of another fourth book of Maccabees which he saw in a library at Lyons, which was afterwards burnt. It was in Greek, … Continue reading “Maccabees, The Fourth Book Of (B)”

Maccabees, The Fourth Book Of (a), though not given in the Roman Vulgate, and therefore not inserted in the Apocrypha contained in the Bibles translated by the Reformers, yet exists in Greek in two leading texts. One, which, on account of its more extensive circulation, may be called the received or common text, is contained … Continue reading “Maccabees, The Fourth Book Of”

Maccabees, The First Book Of the most important one of the five apocryphal productions which have come down to us under this common title. I. Title and Position of the Book. In the editions of the Sept. which we follow, this book is called the first of Maccabees ( ), because in the MSS. it … Continue reading “Maccabees, The First Book Of”

Maccabees, The Fifth Book Of an important chronicle of Jewish affairs, which was for the first time printed in Arabic in the Paris Polyglot (1645), and was thence copied into the London Polyglot (1657). I. Title. The name, the fifth book of Maccabees, has been given to this production by Cotton, who placed it as … Continue reading “Maccabees, The Fifth Book Of”

Maccabees, The Books of The Mac’cabees. The Books of The. Four books which bear the common title of “Maccabees” are found in some manuscripts of the Septuagint (LXX). Two of these were included in the early current Latin versions of the Bible, and thence, passed into the Vulgate. As forming part of the Vulgate, they … Continue reading “Maccabees, The Books of The”

Maccabees, The Books of The title of four books, of which the first and second only are regarded by the Church as canonical; the third and fourth, as Protestants consider all four, are apocryphal. The first two have been so named because they treat of the history of the rebellion of the Machabees, the fourth … Continue reading “Maccabees, The Books of”