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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER HI. PERSECUTION AND OPPRESSION OF THE JEWS. Onias the high-priest died soon after Antigonus, and was succeeded by his son, Simon the Just. This Simon was famous for his holiness of life and the justice of his rule, as well as for having collected and revised the books of Holy Scripture. The genealogy of David the king, in the first Book of Chronicles, reaches to the year 300, and seems to have been added by Simon himself. B. c. 292. He continued in office about nine years, being succeeded by his brother Eleazar, his son Onias being not yet old enough to become high-priest. During this period colonies of Jews were established beyond the borders of Palestine, especially in Alexandria, where the Ptolemies conferred on them many privileges. Many settled at Antioch, on the river Antioch, to the north of Syria, of which it was the capital; and there they continued even after the destruction of Jerusalem. Eleazar continued the high-priest for fifteen years, and during this time we know but little of the history of the Jews. Ptolemy Lagus, or Soter, who died B. c. 282, had treated the Jews with great favour, and allowed Simon the high- priest to fortify the Temple, and build round it the high fortress of the wall.* This was a great privilege to a conquered nation. But Ptolemy Philadelphus, who succeeded him, went beyond this, and having redeemed all the captive Jews in Egypt by a grant from his treasury, sent to the Holy Eccles. i. 1, 2. C Temple at Jerusalem a splendid present of golden vessels, for the sacred services. In his reign a translation of the Hebrew Scripture into the Greek language was made by order of the king for the use of the Jews in Egypt who were not acquainted with the Chaldee tongue. This translation took the name of the Septuagint (Latin fo...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443272322
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443272329
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 74

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