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2 Maccabees 4:45-46
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 4:45-46
New Catholic Bible
45 Menelaus, realizing that the verdict would go against him, promised Ptolemy, the son of Dorymenes,[a] a substantial sum of money if he would win over the king. 46 Ptolemy therefore took the king aside into a colonnade, as though for a breath of air, and persuaded him to change his mind.
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- 2 Maccabees 4:45 Dorymenes: fought for Ptolemy IV against Antiochus III. His son Ptolemy had been governor of Cyprus and deserted to Antiochus IV (see 2 Mac 10:12f).
