2 Maccabees 11:27-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁷ But the king's letter to the Jews was in this manner: King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews, and to the rest of the Jews, greeting.

²⁸ If you are well, you are as we desire, we ourselves also are well.

²⁹ Menelaus came to us, saying that you desired to come down to your countrymen, that are with us.