| II Maccabees 1:10
| In the year *one hundred and eighty-eight, the people that is at Jerusalem, and in Judea, and the senate, and Judas, to Aristobolus, the preceptor of king Ptolemee, who is of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that are in Egypt, health and welfare.
| Year of the World 3880, Year before Christ 124. Eight. Thus the preceding letter is dated, according to many, (Menochius) as there was no Judas or Aristobolus known at this time. But Judas, the Essene prophet, (chap. 2:14.; Worthington) must have flourished about that period; (Josephus, Antiquities 13:19.; Calmet) and one Aristobolus wrote something in the Scripture for Philometor. (Clement [of Alexander], Strom. v.; Eusebius, Hist. 2:17.) --- After Philadelphus, the kings of Egypt had commonly Jews among their preceptors. (Rupert, Vict. 10:15.) --- This person is supposed to have instructed Physcon. (Calmet)
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