“How Antiochus Epiphanes, who inflicted evils upon the Jews beyond all the kings who had been before him in Syria, lost his kingdom and ended his life, is recounted in the first book of this history; and Josephus, in the twelfth book of the Antiquities of the Jews, bears witness, saying: King Antiochus, while traversin…”
Rabanus Maurus, 9th c. — Commentary on 2 Maccabees
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11Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank him highly, as having been in battle against a king.
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9And now see that ye keep the feast of tabernacles in the month Casleu.
10In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus’ master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt:
— 2 Maccabees 1:11 —
12For he cast them out that fought within the holy city.
13For when the leader was come into Persia, and the army with him that seemed invincible, they were slain in the temple of Nanea by the deceit of Nanea’s priests.