Original Douay–Rheims Annotations2 Maccabees 10

They decreed.

^[1] Beza in his Annotations (in Ioan. 10. v. 22.) set forth in English in the year 1603. confesseth that the feast which our Saviour observed, was instituted by Judas Machabeus, and his brethren, after the restoring of God's true religion by casting out Antiochus his garrison. ^[2] It is also clear that this feast was in winter, ibidem, agreeable to the text, ^[3] in the month of Casleu, which is November, whereas the feast of tabernacles was in September, before winter; and the feast of restoration of the temple after the captivity of Babylon, was in Adar (1. Esd. 6.) which is February, between which time and midst of March, was not competent space for those things which Christ did after this feast, before his Passion. And therefore it is very strange that Beza, or other Protestants will deny these Books to be Canonical: which have so excellent a testimony by the Evangelist of our Saviour's own fact.

• 1 Protestants confess that Judas instituted this feast.
• 2 It is distinct from other feasts.
• 3 v. 5.