OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 9:29

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Philip his foster brother took the body home and then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he withdrew himself to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt.

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Verse 29. That was. Syr. “son of his nurse,” appointed regent.—Philometor Lysias asserted his title to the regency, and had the young king, so that Philip applied to the Egyptians to help in the execution of the last will of the deceased. Calmet.—Read 1 B. 6:17. Worthington.

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