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2 Maccabees 11:31-33
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 11:31-33
New Catholic Bible
31 to observe their own dietary laws and other laws as formerly, and none of them will be molested in any way for offenses committed as a result of ignorance. 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]
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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.
