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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MACCABEES:
CONTAINING A RECORD OF EVENTS FROM THE TRANSLATION OF THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES INTO GREEK UNDER PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS, (B.C. 277,) TO THE DEATH OF HEROD’s TWO SONS, IN THE FIFTH OR SIXTH YEAR BEFORE CHRIST.
CHAPTER XXIIa
B.C. 127
The copy of the Romans’ letter to Hyrcanus.
” From the elder, and his three hundred and twenty governors, to Hyrcanus the king of Judah, health. Your letter has even now reached us, on reading which we rejoiced; and we have questioned your ambassadors concerning the state of your affairs. Also, we have acknowledged their place of dignity in science, moral discipline, and the virtues; and we have honoured them, and made them sit in the presence of our elder: who has been careful to transact all their business, giving command that all the cities which Antiochus had taken away by force should be restored to you; and that every obstacle to the exercise of your religion should be removed; and that all should be made void which Antiochus had decreed against you. He has also commanded that all the cities which he had taken should continue faithful to you; he has likewise given orders by letter to all his provinces, that your ambassadors should be treated with respect and honour. Moreover, he has sent with them an ambassador to you named Cynaeus, bearing a letter; to whom also he has entrusted an embassy, that he might treat with you in person.”
Therefore, when this epistle of the Romans had (B.C. 126) reached Hyrcanus, he began to be styled king, being formerly called high priest: and thus, the royal and sacerdotal dignities were united in him. And he was the first who was called king among the chiefs of the Jews in the time of the second house.
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