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2 Maccabees 9:27-29
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 9:27-29
New Catholic Bible
27 I am confident that my son will follow my policy of benevolence and kindness in his relations with you.”
28 And so this murderer and blasphemer, after enduring agonizing sufferings to match those he had inflicted on others, died a wretched death in the mountains of a foreign land. 29 His close friend Philip[a] brought back the body. Then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he withdrew into Egypt, to the court of Ptolemy Philometor.
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- 2 Maccabees 9:29 Philip: perhaps Antiochus V’s guardian (see 1 Mac 6:14-15). Most likely he feared Lysias, viceroy in the west, rather than the son of Antiochus, who was a child; so he joined Syria’s enemy, Ptolemy VI. According to Josephus, Philip took over the Seleucid government and was later killed.
