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2 Maccabees 12:33-35
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 12:33-35
New Catholic Bible
33 who confronted them with three thousand foot soldiers and four hundred horsemen. 34 In the course of the ensuing battle, a small number of Jews lost their lives. 35 However, a man named Dositheus, one of Bacenor’s cavalry forces[a] and an individual of great strength, caught hold of Gorgias by his cloak and forcibly dragged him along, intending to take the accursed man alive. But a Thracian horseman bore down on Dositheus and cut off his arm at the shoulder, enabling Gorgias to escape to Marisa.
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- 2 Maccabees 12:35 One of Bacenor’s cavalry forces: some ancient witnesses to the text have “one of the Toubiani” (see v. 17). Cloak: a short cloak attached to the chest or a shoulder by a buckle. It was very common with officials of the Hellenistic armies. Marisa: ancient Canaanite city, about thirteen miles west of Hebron on the road that descends along the Philistine coast.
