Farewell. Written in the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the twenty-fourth day of the month Dioscorinthius.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. In the year one hundred and forty-eight; that is according to the computation of the Greeks, which was different from that of the Hebrews, followed by the writer of the first book of Machabees. However by this date, as well as by other circumstances, it appears that the expedition of Lysias, mentioned in this chapter, is different from that recorded 1 Maccabees 6:16. Challoner.—Dioscorus. Syr. “the last of Tisri.” Greek “Jupiter of Corinth,” which is more unintelligible. There was no month called Dioscorus among the Greeks. Calmet.—It might be put for Dius, (Grot.) or Distrus, (Serar. Tirinus.) or it was an intercalary month, between March and April, (Salien) or the Macedonians had two names for some months. Bible.
This month name is not found elsewhere, and is perhaps corrupt.