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1 Maccabees 8:2-4
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 8:2-4
New Catholic Bible
2 He had also been told of the battles they had fought and of the brave deeds that they had performed against the people of Gaul[a] as they conquered them and forced them to pay tribute, 3 and what they had done in the province of Spain, seizing the silver and gold mines there 4 and by their planning and persistence gaining control of the entire country even though it was considerably distant from their own. They also had subdued kings who had come against them from the ends of the earth,[b] crushing them and inflicting heavy losses on them, while the rest paid tribute to them every year.
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- 1 Maccabees 8:2 Gaul: the text has Galatia, but it must be read as Cisalpine Gaul, which was defeated in 222 B.C. (the first great expansion of Rome outside the peninsular part of Italy), because, listed in chronological order are the subsequent conquests, beginning with the Iberian one that followed immediately upon the Gallican. However, the Romans also defeated the Galatians in 189 B.C.
- 1 Maccabees 8:4 Against them from the ends of the earth (that is, from the Straits of Gibraltar) had come Hannibal and then his brother Hasdrubal, Carthaginian leaders, in the Second Punic War: the latter was stopped and slain at Metaurus while the former, after clamorous initial successes, was beaten at Zama.
