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King Antiochus was traveling through the upper countries; and he heard that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold,
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Verse 1. Higher, beyond the Euphrates. Calmet. 3:30. 37. Calmet.—The city. Greek Alex. and so forth “a city in Elymais,” and so forth The Rom. copy, Syr. Jos. style the place Elymais, where the temple was. Calmet.—Profane authors agree that this temple was very rich, and that Epiphanes attempted to plunder it. Saint Jerome in Dan. xi.—Nanea. Venus or Diana was the deity there adored, whom the king pretended he would marry. 2 Maccabees 1:13 and 9:2. Calmet.—The account of the death of Epiphanes is given to verse 16 and 2 B. 9. Worthington.
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