2 Maccabees 9:22
21. As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honour and good will returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:22. Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.23. But considering that even my father, at what time he led an army into the high countries. appointed a successor,
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