[676] The rendering is much disputed, and some versions, punctuating differently, have, "his seed [i.e., his daughter] shall not stand." Every clause of the passage has received varying interpretations.
[677] Polyb., v. 58.
[678] Heb., nasîkîm; LXX., τὰ χωνευτά; Vulg., sculptilia.
[679] Herodotus (iii. 47) says that he ordered the images to be burnt. On the Marmor Adulitanum, Ptolemy Euergetes boasted that he had united Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Persia, Susiana, Media, and all countries as far as Bactria under his rule. The inscription was seen at Adules by Cosmas Indicopleustes, and recorded by him (Wolf u. Buttmann, Museum, ii. 162).
[680] R.V. marg., "He shall continue more years than the King of the North." Ptolemy Euergetes died b.c. 247; Seleucus Kallinikos, b.c. 225. It must be borne in mind that in almost every clause the readings, renderings, and interpolations vary. I give what seem to be the best attested and the most probable.
[681] Justin, xxvii. 2.
[682] See 3 Macc. i. 2-8; Jos., B. J., IV. xi. 5. The Seleucid army lost ten thousand foot, three hundred horse, five elephants, and more than four thousand prisoners (Polyb., v. 86).
[683] Justin says (xxx. i): "Spoliasset regem Antiochum si fortunam virtute juvisset."
[684] Chāzôn, "the vision." Grätz renders it, "to cause the Law to totter"; but this cannot be right.
[685] E.g., Joseph, and his son Hyrcanus.