1 Maccabees 11:31-33

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³¹ We send you here a copy of the letter, which we have written to Lasthenes our parent concerning you, that you might know it.

³² King Demetrius to Lasthenes his parent, greeting.

³³ We have determined to do good to the nation of the Jews who are our friends, and keep the things that are just with us, for their good will which they bear towards us.