But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal to him by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and raise him to high honor if he would turn from the ways of his ancestors, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 24. Despising. Lit. “despising the voice of the insulter.” Greek “fearing or perceiving that the speech was reproachful.” Bible.—Syr. “turned aside not to hear the reproaches,” and so forth He did not understand Hebrew; but perceiving the constancy of the young men, he thought that their mother exhorted them to refuse compliance. Calmet.—Happy. This is beyond the power of riches or of any king. Bible.
Greek make him one that is counted happy.
See 2 Maccabees 8:9.