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.
23 Since our father has been transferred among the gods, we are willing that those who are in our kingdom should act without tumult, and should attend diligently to their own concerns.
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