“That Demetrius repaid Jonathan with evil for his benefits signifies carnal fools, who, when advice is given them for their salvation, do not repay their backers according to the benefits owed, but according to the wicked counsels of their hardened heart. For whatever is done for their advantage, they regard it entirel…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees
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52So king Demetrius sat on the throne of his kingdom, and the land was quiet before him.
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50Grant us peace, and let the Jews cease from assaulting us and the city.
51With that they cast away their weapons, and made peace; and the Jews were honoured in the sight of the king, and in the sight of all that were in his realm; and they returned to Jerusalem, having great spoils.
— 1 Maccabees 11:52 —
53Nevertheless he dissembled in all that ever he spake, and estranged himself from Jonathan, neither rewarded he him according to the benefits which he had received of him, but troubled him very sore.
54After this returned Tryphon, and with him the young child Antiochus, who reigned, and was crowned.