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Antiochus carried away eighteen hundred talents from the temple and hurried back to Antioch, imagining in his pride and arrogance that it was possible to sail across the land and march across the sea.
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But the Lord didn't choose the nation because of the place, but the place because of the nation.
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So the temple also shared the misfortunes of the nation, but afterward it also shared in its good fortunes. That which the almighty abandoned in his wrath would again be restored with all glory when the nation was reconciled to the great Lord.
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Antiochus carried away eighteen hundred talents from the temple and hurried back to Antioch, imagining in his pride and arrogance that it was possible to sail across the land and march across the sea.
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He left governors who mistreated the people. In Jerusalem there was Philip of the Phrygians, who had a manner more barbarous than that of the man who appointed him.
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In Mount Gerizim there was Andronicus, and in addition there was Menelaus, who treated the citizens worse than the others. In his hostility against the Jewish citizens,