Re: Focused Action

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 become insolent, and
his heart shall be lifted up," (this Ptolemy desecrated the temple;
Josephus): "he shall cast down many ten thousands, but he shall not be
strengthened by it. For the king of the north," (Antiochus the Great),
"shall return with a greater multitude than before, and in those times also
a great number of enemies shall stand up against the king of the south,"
(during the reign of the young Ptolemy Epiphanes); "also the apostates and
robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but
they shall fall." (Those who abandon their religion to please Euergetes,
when he will send his troops to Scopas; for Antiochus will again take
Scopas, and conquer them.) "And the king of the north shall destroy the
fenced cities, and the ar