βμο, θυσιαστριον. These two words are commonly used, the former in a bad, the other in a good sense, of Heathen, and Christian, or Jewish, altars respectively. This seems to be an invariable rule, as to the word βμο, in the Greek Bible except that it is used of the Jewish altar in the following places of the Apocrypha: Ecclus. l. 12, 14; 2 Macc. ii. 19, xiii. 8, which may suffice to show that it was occasionally employed, as by St. Chrysostom here, with no unholy association.