OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 6:1

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Not long after this, the king sent out an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live by the laws of God,

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Verse 1. After, A. 3837.—Old, or senator. Greek “Atheneus,” or “an Athenian senator.”

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Or, Geron an Athenian

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