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2 Maccabees 4:11
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 4:11
New Catholic Bible
11 He set aside the royal concessions that had been granted to the Jews through the efforts of John—the father of that Eupolemus who later was sent on an embassy to negotiate a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Romans—and, abolishing the institutions founded on the law, he introduced customs that ran contrary to it.[a]
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- 2 Maccabees 4:11 Antiochus III had granted the Jews the right to govern themselves according to the law of Moses. Concerning Eupolemus’s mission to Rome, see 1 Mac 8:17.
