“What is signified by Ptolemy, if not hypocritical and crafty men? These, then, with a insincere submission attaching themselves to good teachers, and pretending devotion, whose power they utterly ignore, generally attain to honor and ecclesiastical dignity, the teachers themselves granting it to them: for this is what…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 1 Maccabees 16
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11Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemeus the son of Abubus made captain, and he had abundance of silver and gold:
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9At that time was Judas John’s brother wounded; but John still followed after them, until he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had built.
10So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus; wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace.
— 1 Maccabees 16:11 —
12For he was the high priest’s son in law.
13Wherefore his heart being lifted up, he thought to get the country to himself, and thereupon consulted deceitfully against Simon and his sons to destroy them.