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And Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great hypocrisy encouraged Antiochus, not for the saving of his country, but because he thought that he would be set over the government.
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Verse 3. Country. He had continued at Antioch, as the Jews would not receive him. Calmet. 4:24. Calmet.—Yet now he pretended to be solicitous for their welfare, ( Bible.) only that he might obtain power.
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