2 Maccabees 9:21
“As for mee I was weake, or else I would haue remembred kindly your honour, and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grieuous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:”
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2 Maccabees 9:21 Context
19Antiochus king and gouernour, to the good Iewes his Citizens, wisheth much ioy, health, and prosperity. 20If ye, and your children fare well, and your affaires be to your contentment, I giue very great thankes to God, hauing my hope in heauen. 21As for mee I was weake, or else I would haue remembred kindly your honour, and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grieuous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all: 22Not distrusting mine health, but hauing great hope to escape this sicknes 23But considering that euen my father, at what time he led an armie into the hie countries, appointed a successor,
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As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
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