OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 4:45

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45

But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king.

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Verse 45. Ptolemee, the son of Dorymenus, a favourite of the king, ( Challoner.) whose perfidy had procured him the government of Celosyria. Calmet. 10:3. and 1 B. 3:38.

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