OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 12:7

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Even before this time letters were sent to Onias the high priest from Arius, who was reigning among you, to signify that you are our kindred, as the copy written below shows.

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Verse 7. Onias the third, between the years 3805 and 3829.—Arius. Greek and Syr. erroneously write, Darius. See verse 20. Jos. Ant. xii. 5.

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So the old Latin versions and Josephus: compare also ver. 20. All the other authorities read Darius in this place.

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