Re: Michael Lalonde

[lal...@nospamaol.com]

have entirely stripped Seleucus); "and he shall continue several years when
the king of the north can do nought against him.

"And so he shall return into his kingdom. But his sons shall be stirred up,
and shall assemble a multitude of great forces," (Seleucus Ceraunus,
Antiochus the Great). "And their army shall come and overthrow all;
wherefore the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall also
form a great army, and fight him," (Ptolemy Philopator against Antiochus the
Great at Raphia), "and conquer; and his troops shall become insolent, and
his heart shall be lifted up," (this Ptolemy desecrated the temple;
Josephus): "he shall cast down many ten thousands, but he shall not be
strengthened by it. For the king of the north," (Antiochus the Great),
"shall return with a greater multitude than before, and in those times also
a great number of enemies shall stand up against the king of the south,"
(during the reign of the young Ptolemy Epiphanes); "also the apostates and
robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but
they shall fall." (Those who abandon their religion to please Euergetes,
when he will send his troops to Scopas; for Antiochus will again take
Scopas, and conquer them.) "And the king of the north shall destroy the
fenced cities, and the arms of the south shall not withstand, and all shall
yield to his will; he shall stand in the land of Israel, and it shall yield
to him. And thus he shall think to make himself master of all the empire of
Egypt, (despising the youth of Epiphanes, says Justin). "And for that he
shall make alliance with him, and give his daughter" (Cleopatra, i