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2 Maccabees 11:32-34
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 11:32-34
New Catholic Bible
32 I am also sending Menelaus to assure you. 33 Farewell. The fifteenth day of Xanthicus in the year one hundred and forty-eight.”[a]
34 The Romans Write to the Jews. The Romans also sent a letter to the Jews, which read as follows: “Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, legates of the Romans, send greetings to the Jewish people.
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- 2 Maccabees 11:33 The date given here is the same as for the Romans’ letter in verse 38, which cannot be the case. The king’s letter must be related to the peace treaty of the Seleucid year 149, that is, 163 B.C. Some believe that the appearance of the month Xanthicus in the body of the letter (v. 30), as well as in the close, caused the date of the Romans’ letter to be transferred to the king’s letter.
