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2 Maccabees 9:28-29
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 9:28-29
New Catholic Bible
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.
