He shall also set his face — He shall use all the force he can to master Egypt, and engross it to himself. Upright ones — Many of the religious Jews joined with him: the rest of his army was a profane rabble of rude Heathens. He shall give — Antiochus shall give Cleopatra his daughter to young Ptolemy, called the daughter of women, for her beauty. Corrupting her — Persuading her to betray her husband: but she stuck to her husband's interest, and not her father's.

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