Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 16:11
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
11Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemy 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 Kedron, 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.