2 Maccabees 1:10-12

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁰ In the year one hundred and eighty-eight, the people that is at Jerusalem, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare.

¹¹ Having been delivered by God out of great dangers, we give him great thanks, forasmuch as we have been in war with such a king.

¹² For he made numbers of men swarm out of Persia that have fought against us, and the holy city.