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But for all this his pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him:
therefore despairing of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the
form of a supplication, after this manner:
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Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and
prosperity:
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If ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great
thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.
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As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will
returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for
the common safety of all:
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Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.
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But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries.
appointed a successor,
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To the end that, if any thing fell out contrary to expectation, or if any tidings were brought
that were grievous, they of the land, knowing to whom the state was left, might not be troubled:
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Again, considering how that the princes that are borderers and neighbours unto my kingdom
wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event. I have appointed my son Antiochus king,
whom I often committed and commended unto many of you, when I went up into the high provinces;
to whom I have written as followeth:
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Therefore I pray and request you to remember the benefits that I have done unto you generally,
and in special, and that every man will be still faithful to me and my son.
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For I am persuaded that he understanding my mind will favourably and graciously yield to
your desires.
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Thus the murderer and blasphemer having suffered most grievously, as he entreated other
men, so died he a miserable death in a strange country in the mountains.
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And Philip, that was brought up with him, carried away his body, who also fearing the son
of Antiochus went into Egypt to Ptolemeus Philometor.
CHAPTER MACCABEES 10
Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them, recovered the temple and the city:
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But the altars which the heathen had built in the open street, and also the chapels, they pulled
down.
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And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and striking stones they took fire out
of them, and offered a sacrifice after two years, and set forth incense, and lights, and shewbread.
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When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more
into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them
with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations.
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