Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 15:38
A church father on this verse
“What is indicated by Cendebaeus, the commander of the coastal region, whom Antiochus sends to wage war against the Jews, if not the powers of this world and the persecutors of the Christian religion? Antiochus, namely the mystical Antichrist, sends them with an army of officers and executioners for the destruction of…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
38Then the king made Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and gave him a host of footmen and horsemen,
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36but returned in a rage to the king, and made report unto him of these speeches, and of the glory of Simon, and of all that he had seen: whereupon the king was exceeding wroth.
37In the mean time fled Trypho by ship unto Orthosia.
— 1 Maccabees 15:38 —
39and commanded him to remove his host toward Judea: also he commanded him to build up Kedron, and to fortify the gates, and to war against the people; but as for the king himself, he pursued Trypho.
40So Cendebeus came to Jamnia, and began to provoke the people, and to invade Judea, and to take the people prisoners, and slay them.