Did Epiphanes fight the Hellenized Jews? I thought they were allies, together fighting the Maccabees.
There’s no real data on that, but once ya start killing people, Jews or Hottentots, ya soon stop discriminating twixt friend and foe. It’s just human nature I guess. Besides, it’s much easier if the opposition isn’t armed, and sitreps and body counts go back to the time before Nimrod. Westmoreland didn’t invent them. (I witnessed a really funny “moment of truth” involving Westmoreland, his Wife, and his knockout Gorgeous female personal Secretary. I’m ear to ear grinnin’ as I think of it. Another time.)
No tyrant has ever really wanted to take away a people’s ability to hunt...just to oppose the government!
They were allied against the Maccabees. Had common interest in defeating them. Think of Epiphanes, and the gang as Biden and the Swamp, the Hellenized Jews as RINOS and the DOJ, and Trump, as Judah, and the MIGA. It was do or die for all of them, but G-D was only on one side.
May it be so also in November.
The question is “Who will be our Mattathias? Who gave the stab that gushed round ZION”