Holy Scripture
2 Maccabees 9:21
Source: Septuagint
Original
21As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honor and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
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19Antiochus, king and governor, to the good Jews his citizens wisheth much joy, health, and prosperity:
20if ye and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.
— 2 Maccabees 9:21 —
22not distrusting my health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.
23But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries, appointed a successor,