Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. King. Antiochus Sidetes, who began to make war upon the Jews, while Simon was yet alive; (1 Maccabees 15:39) and afterwards besieged Jerusalem, under John Hircanus. So that the Judas here mentioned (verse 10.) is not Judas Machabeus, who was dead long before the year 188 of the kingdom of the Greeks, for he died in the year 146 of that epoch; (see above, 1 Mac. chapter 2, verse 70, also the note on chap. 1, verse 2.) but either Judas, the eldest son of John Hircanus, or Judas the Essene, renowned for the gift of prophecy, who flourished about that time. Challoner.—Epiphanes may as well be meant. The ancestors of those who wrote resisted him.