OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 5:24

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he sent that lord of pollutions Apollonius with an army of twenty-two thousand, commanding him to kill all those who were of full age, and to sell the women and the boys as slaves.

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Verse 24. He. Syr. “Epiphanes.”—Hateful. Greek μυσαρχην, ( Bible.) “prince of Mysia,” (Grot.) or of sinners. Bible.

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Greek Μυσάρχην, which also may mean ruler of the Mysians.

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