The people of Jerusalem and those who are in Judea, with the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, King Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews who are in Egypt, we send greetings and health.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 10. Eight. Thus the preceding letter is dated, according to many, ( Menochius.) as there was no Judas or Aristobolus known at this time. But Judas, the Essene prophet, (Calmet. 2:14. Worthington.) must have flourished about that period; (Jos. Ant. xiii. 19. Calmet.) and one Aristobolus wrote something in the Scripture for Philometor. Clem. Strom. v. Eus. Hist. ii. 17.—After Philadelphus, the kings of Egypt had commonly Jews among their preceptors. Rupert, Vict. x. 15.—This person is supposed to have instructed Physcon. Calmet.