2 Maccabees 11:20 CPDV

¹⁸  Therefore, whatever things could be brought before the king, I have presented them. And he has conceded to those things that are permitted.

¹⁹  If, therefore, you will keep yourselves faithful in these matters, then, from now on, I will endeavor to be a cause of your good.

²⁰  But as for other particulars, I have given orders by word, both to these, and to those who have been sent by me, to confer with you.

²¹  Farewell. In the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the twenty-fourth day of the month of Dioscorus.'

²²  But the letter of the king contained this: 'King Antiochus to Lysias, his brother: greetings.