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1 Maccabees 8:14-16
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 8:14-16
New Catholic Bible
14 Yet for all this not one of them ever put on a crown or wore purple as an emblem of authority. 15 They had built a senate house where each day three hundred and twenty senators deliberated on how best to achieve the well-being of the people. 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.
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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.
