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3 Maccabees

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Old Testament · History · 8 chapter studies · 8 narrated · Total audio: 4 hrs 59 min

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  1. Intro 3 Maccabees - Overview A Coptic Orthodox teaching overview of 3 Maccabees, explaining its wider Orthodox reception, relationship to 1 and 2 Maccabees, temple holiness, diaspora faithfulness, prayer... 51 min read Narrated
  2. 1 3 Maccabees 1 - Ptolemy, Jerusalem, and the Holy Place Ptolemy IV's victory at Raphia leads to Jerusalem, where admiration for the temple becomes presumption, the holy boundary is defended by Law and prayer, and the people learn holy... 19 min read Narrated
  3. 2 3 Maccabees 2 - Simon’s Prayer and God’s Defense of the Temple Simon the high priest prays from Scripture and salvation history, God defends His holy place, Ptolemy is humbled without repentance, and the crisis turns toward coerced... 19 min read Narrated
  4. 3 3 Maccabees 3 - Diaspora Faithfulness under Suspicion The Jews of Egypt are slandered as disloyal because they preserve covenant distinction, while Ptolemy recasts religious coercion as civic reform and orders their destruction. 18 min read Narrated
  5. 4 3 Maccabees 4 - Gathering, Humiliation, and Hidden Providence The forced gathering of the Jews exposes public humiliation and grief, while the failed registration reveals God's Providence already restraining evil before visible rescue... 20 min read Narrated
  6. 5 3 Maccabees 5 - Rage Delayed by Providence Ptolemy's repeated rage is restrained by God through sleep, forgetfulness, delay, and confusion, teaching that arrogant power is not sovereign even before visible deliverance... 28 min read Narrated
  7. 6 3 Maccabees 6 - Eleazar's Prayer and Angelic Deliverance Eleazar's prayer gathers Israel's saving memory, and God answers with angelic rescue that overturns death without making the faithful into conquerors by violence. 31 min read Narrated
  8. 7 3 Maccabees 7 - Thanksgiving, Judgment, and Sacred Memory The delivered people receive public vindication, confront covenant betrayal, return home in peace, and register their rescue as sacred memory before blessing the Redeemer of... 27 min read Narrated