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• Phinehas, our father, in return for his burning zeal, received the covenant of everlasting priesthood. (1 Maccabees 2, 54)

• In the earlier days of the insurrection he had been convicted of Judaism, and he had risked both life and limb for Judaism with the utmost zeal. (2 Maccabees 14, 38)

• Where knowledge is wanting, zeal is not good; whoever goes too quickly stumbles. (Proverbs 19, 2)

• Rulers were the ones who ordered that statues should be worshipped: people who could not honour them in person, because they lived too far away, would have a portrait made of their distant countenance, to have an image that they could see of the king whom they honoured; meaning, by such zeal, to flatter the absent as if he were present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)

• Phinehas son of Eleazar is third in glory because of his zeal in the fear of the Lord, because he stood firm when the people revolted, with a staunch and courageous heart; and in this way made expiation for Israel. (Ecclesiasticus 45, 23)

• It was he who brought famine on them and decimated them in his zeal. (Ecclesiasticus 48, 2)

• Look down from heaven and see from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where is your zeal and your might? Are your deepest feelings, your mercy to me, to be restrained? (Isaiah 63, 15)

• Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: I am eaten up with zeal for your house. (John 2, 17)