2 Maccabees 9:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ To his very good subjects the Jews, Antiochus king and ruler wisheth much health and welfare, and happiness.

²⁰ If you and your children are well, and if all matters go with you to your mind, we give very great thanks.

²¹ As for me, being infirm, but yet kindly remembering you, returning out of the places of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to take care for the common good: