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The Suppression of Judaism

Not long after this, the king sent an Athenian[a] senator[b] to compel the Jews to forsake the laws of their ancestors and no longer to live by the laws of God; also to pollute the temple in Jerusalem and to call it the temple of Olympian Zeus, and to call the one in Gerizim the temple of Zeus-the-Friend-of-Strangers, as did the people who lived in that place.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Maccabees 6:1 Other ancient authorities read Antiochian
  2. 2 Maccabees 6:1 Or Geron an Athenian

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