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Posted by Abdullah Shah Haydar on November 10, 2007, 2:03 pm
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" (Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, son of
the other Ptolemy), "shall come to the king of the north," (to Antiochus
Deus, King of Syria and of Asia, son of Seleucus Lagidas), "to make peace
between these princes.
"But neither she nor her seed shall have a long authority; for she and they
that brought her, and her children, and her friends, shall be delivered to
death." (Berenice and her son were killed by Seleucus Callinicus.)
"But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up," (Ptolemy Euergetes
was the issue of the same father as Berenice), "which shall come with a
mighty army into the land of the king of the north, where he shall put all
under subjection, and he shall also carry captive into Egypt their gods,
their princes, their gold, their silver, and all their precious spoils," (if
he had not been called into Egypt by domestic reasons, says Justin, he would
have entirely stripped Seleucus); "and he shall continue several years when
the king of the north can do nought against him.
"And so he shall return into his kingdom. But his sons shall be stirred up,
and shall assemble a multitude of great forces," (Seleucus Ceraunus,
Antiochus the Great). "And their army shall come and overthrow all;
wherefore the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall also
form a great army, and fight him," (Ptolemy Philopator against Antiochus the
Great at Raphia), "and conquer; and his troops shall b
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