1 Maccabees 14:21
“The Embassadors that were sent vnto our people, certified vs of your glory and honour, wherefore we were glad of their comming,”
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1 Maccabees 14:21 Context
19Which writings were read before the Congregation at Ierusalem. 20And this is the copy of the letters that the Lacedemonians sent: The rulers of the Lacedemonians, with the city, vnto Simon the high Priest, and the Elders and Priestes, and residue of the people of the Iewes, our brethren, send greeting. 21The Embassadors that were sent vnto our people, certified vs of your glory and honour, wherefore we were glad of their comming, 22And did register the things that they spake, in the counsell of the people, in this maner: Numenius sonne of Antiochus, and Antipater sonne of Iason, the Iewes Embassadours, came vnto vs, to renew the friendship they had with vs. 23And it pleased the people to entertaine the men honourably, and to put the copy of their embassage in publike records, to the end the people of the Lacedemonians might haue a memoriall therof: furthermore we haue written a copy thereof vnto Simon the hie Priest.
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The ambassadors that were sent unto our people certified us of your glory and honour: wherefore we were glad of their coming,
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