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Re: Und jetzt mal Butter bei die Fische: Wer ist "hunter@netzterrorist.com"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hunter)
Thu Jan 24 16:17:41 2008
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:31:46 GMT
From: "Hunter" <hunter@netzterrorist.com>
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" (Alexander), "that shall rule with great
dominion, and do according to his will. And when he shall stand up, his
kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided in four parts toward the four
winds of heaven," (as he had said above, 7:6; 8:8), "but not his posterity;
and his successors shall not equal his power, for his kingdom shall be
plucked up, even for others besides these," (his four chief successors).
"And the king of the south," (Ptolemy, son of Lagos, Egypt), "shall be
strong; but one of his princes shall be strong above him, and his dominion
shall be a great dominion," (Seleucus, King of Syria. Appian says that he
was the most powerful of Alexander's successors).
"And in the end of years they shall join themselves together, and the king's
daughter of the south," (Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, son of
the other Ptolemy), "shall come to the king of the north," (to Antiochus
Deus, King of Syria and of Asia, son of Seleucus Lagidas), "to make peace
between these princes.
"But neither she nor her seed shall have a long authority; 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
