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After the treaty is made with him, he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong with a small people.
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Verse 23. People. Ephiphanes pretended to be tutor of Philometor. But the nobles of Egypt distrusted him; whereupon he came to a battle, near Pelusium, and the young king surrendered himself. His uncle thus took possession of Egypt with surprising facility. Yet the people of Alexandria crowned Evergetes, which occasioned a civil war. Calmet.
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