59. The Feast of Hanukkah, mentioned Jn
10:22, and called by Josephus (Ant.,
XII, vii, 7) Lights, was observed for
the first four centuries by the Church as well as by the Synagogue. Among the
Jews this feast is still very popular. See 2 Mac 1:9, 10:6, 7. (Joseph
William Hunkin, “I. and II. Maccabees,” in A New Commentary on Holy
Scripture: Including the Apocrypha, ed. Charles Gore, Henry Lengihton
Goudge, and Alfred Guillaume, 3 vols. [New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942],
133)
