A70035:211
The Scriptures harmony
The Scriptures harmony by E.F., Esq.
London: printed by Richard Cotes for William Hope, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of 1Antiochus King of Syria, a King of fierce countenance, a vile person, that wicked root, after his brother Seleucus was dead, began to reign in the end of the 137 year of the Grecian Kingdom.
Antiochus sirnamed Epiphanes, sonne of 1Antiochus King of Syria, a King of fierce countenance, a vile person, that wicked root, after his brother Seleucus was dead, began to reigne in the end of the 137 yeere of the Grecian Kingdome.
- 1Dan. 8. v. 23. &c 11. v. 21. 1 Mac. 1. v. 10. 2 Mac. 4. v. 7. Joseph. Antiqu. l. 12 c. 5.
On the eighth day of the fifth month in the 141. 1year, the transgression of desolation began, and the daily sacrifice decayed by the gross idolatry of those, who (with the licence of Antiochus) joined themselves to the Heathen, and were sold to do mischief. And in the 143. year, he took Jerusalem, polluted the Sanctuary, hindered, and afterwards forbade the daily Sacrifice, and compelled the Jews to all manner of ambition. Whom Mattathias the Priest for 2some times courageously and prosperously resisted; but he quickly deceasing, Judas Maccabeus (according to his appointment) rose up in his stead, and became both the Captain and Governor of Judea, in the end of the 146. year of the Grecian Kingdom,
On the eighth day of the fifth moneth in the 141. 1