O Jerusalem, thou holy city! He will chastise thee for the works of thy hands, And will again have mercy on the sons of the righteous. Give thanks to the Lord with goodness, and bless the everlasting King, That thy tabernacle may be builded in thee again with joy, And that He may make glad in thee all that are captives, And love in thee all that are miserable and all the generations of eternity. A bright light shall shine unto all the ends of the earth; Many nations shall come from afar, And the inhabitants of the utmost ends of the earth unto Thy holy name ... (xiii. 7-18; see also xiv. 4-6). No other books of the Apocrypha offer any teaching on this subject until we come to 1 Maccabees, where there is conceivably in the mind of the writer the thought of the Messiah in iv. 46, “... so they pulled down the altar, and laid down the stones in the mountain of the House, in a convenient place, until a prophet should come and decide as to what should be done concerning them.” The reference here is probably to Deuteronomy xviii. 18, which is not a Messianic passage, though it may have been so interpreted in later times. A somewhat more definite reference to the Messiah is perhaps to be seen in xiv. 41: “And the Jews and the priests were well pleased that Simon should be their leader and high-priest for ever, until a faithful prophet should arise.” The words “for ever” mean that the high-priesthood should continue hereditary in the house of the Hasmonæans, so that if by “a faithful prophet” the Messiah is meant, the writer would imply that the Messiah would be of Hasmonæan lineage. In 2 Maccabees there is no reference to the Messiah, though there is to the Messianic Kingdom, for the gathering together of the scattered Israelites in Jerusalem is an undoubted Messianic _trait_: “Gather together our dispersion, set at liberty them that are in bondage among the heathen.... Plant Thy people in Thy holy place” (i. 27); and again in ii. 18: “In God have we hope, that He will speedily have mercy upon us, and gather us together from under the wide heaven to the holy place.”[333] In Baruch the Messianic Kingdom, though not the Messiah, is spoken of in iv. and v., where the destruction of Israel’s enemies is referred to: ... But shortly thou shalt see his [i.e. the enemy’s] destruction, And shalt tread upon their necks (iv. 25, cf. verses 31 ff.). The ingathering of Israel is also described: ... O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, And behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God, Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, They come gathered together from the east to the west, Rejoicing in the glory of God ... (iv. 36-v. 9).