But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in
his
estate
Or, "out of a branch of her roots a shoot thereof shall stand or
rise up" F24; by "her roots" are meant her
ancestors, particularly Ptolemy Lagus; by "a branch" from thence,
Ptolemy Philadelphus her father; and by the "shoot" out of that,
or its plantation, as the Vulgate Latin version, is designed her
brother, Ptolemy Euergetes; who succeeded her father in the
kingdom, and stood firm in it; "upon his basis" F25, as
some render it: which shall come with an army;
or, "to an army" F26 as soon as he heard of his sister's
case, he put himself at the head of an army, and marched to her
relief; but coming too late, he, and the forces of the lesser
Asia, which came for the same purpose, joining him, resolved to
revenge the death of his sister and her son, went with his army
into Syria, as next foretold: and shall enter into the
fortress of the king of the north;
the king of Syria, Seleucus Callinicus: Ptolemy entered into
Syria itself, as Polybius F1 says, into the fortified
cities of it, and took them, the singular being put for the
plural; unless Seleucia itself is particularly designed, which
Ptolemy seized, and put a garrison of Egyptians in it, which held
it twenty seven years F2: and shall deal against
them;
besiege and take them at his pleasure; the king of Syria not
being able to stand against him and defend them: and shall
prevail;
over the king of Syria, and conquer great part of his dominions,
as he did: he took Syria and Cilicia, and the superior parts
beyond Euphrates, and almost all Asia, as Jerome relates; and had
it not been for a sedition in his own kingdom, which called him
home, he had made himself master of the whole kingdom of
Seleucus, as Justin F3 says.