A Universal History From the Beginning of the World to the Empire of Charlemagne

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A Universal History From the Beginning of the World to the Empire of Charlemagne
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704
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In thefe days the Jewifh reli^on apd nation begins to be known among th^ i- Greeks, That people, well treated by the kings of Syria, lived quietly ac- cording to its own laws. Ant;iochus Theus, grandfon of Seleucus, fpread them over the lefler Afia, whence they extended thcmfdves into Greece, and €very where enjoyed the fame pri- JoT.Ant.
vileges and liberties with the other citi-'["» 3» %ens. Ptolemy, fon of Lagus, had al- ready fetded them in Egy
...pt. Under . his ion Ptolemy Phifiulelphus their \ Scriptures were turned into Greek, and dien appeared that celebrated ver- (ion, called the Septuagint. It was p^- formed by feventy old men, whom E- leazar the high-prieft hsid fent to the king, at his defire. Some will have it, that they tranflated no more than Tof.Aiit.the Pentateuch. The reft of the far 'lib* ^^^^ books might afterwards have been xii. t. put i"t Greek for the ufe of tjie «. Jews, that were difperfed over Egypt and Greece, where they forgot not only their own ancient language, which , was the Hebrew, but alfo the Chal- , daic, which they had learned in their j captivity.

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