The Antiquities of the Jews, 12.325

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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325And from that time to this we celebrate this festival, and call it Lights. I suppose the reason was, because this liberty beyond our hopes appeared to us; and that thence was the name given to that festival.

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