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1 Maccabees 8:16-18
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 8:16-18
New Catholic Bible
16 They entrusted one man[a] each year to rule over them and their dominions; all obeyed this one man without any envy or jealousy.
17 Alliance with Rome. Therefore, Judas chose Eupolemus, son of John, son of Accos, and Jason, son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome to make a treaty of friendship and alliance, 18 in the hope that in this way they would escape the yoke, for they could clearly see that the kingdom of the Greeks was reducing Israel to a state of slavery.
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- 1 Maccabees 8:16 One man: in reality, there were two consuls, but only one went on far-off military expeditions. This may be the origin of the idea that there was only one ruler. In everything else they alternated governing every month. In any case, everything said about the Romans is arrived at by way of reputation.
