“bacchus” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word bacchus appears 3 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 2 matching verses are shown below.
- 2 Machabees 6:7 But they were led by bitter constraint on the king’s birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus.
- 2 Machabees 14:33 And swore, saying: Unless you deliver Judas prisoner to me, I will lay this temple of God even with the ground, and will beat down the altar, and I will dedicate this temple to Bacchus.