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If you will maintain your good will toward the government, I will endeavor for the future to help promote your welfare.
20
And concerning these matters and their details, I have ordered these men and my representatives to confer with you.
21
Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year, Dioscorinthius twenty-fourth."
22
The king's letter ran thus: "King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greeting.
23
Now that our father has gone on to the gods, we desire that the subjects of the kingdom be undisturbed in caring for their own affairs.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.