Esdras (II)

2 Macc. viii. 23.II. ESDRAS. The Text of the Vulgate imports, that after Esdras had first read some time in the Sacred Volume, Judas Maccabæus gave battle to the Syrians: but the Greek Text, and the Syriac, instead of Esdras read Eleazar, and there is a good deal of probability, that he who read thus, was Eleazar the brother of Judas.

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