OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 13:19

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So he sent the children and the hundred talents, but Tryphon lied, and didn’t release Jonathan.

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Verse 19. Talents. If he had refused, he might have been suspected of avarice or of ambition. Menochius.—Jonathan would most probably have been slain, and the people would have revolted. Saint Thomas Aquinas Worthington.

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