The Cambridge Bible for schools and colleges . oopsfrom Rhodes to the coast of Syria. He would probably land atSeleucia. 250 I. MACCABEES, XV. [vv. 5, 6. the country, that I may punish them that have destroyedour country, and them that have made many cities in the 5 kingdom desolate: Now therefore I confirm unto thee allthe exactions which the kings that were before me remittedunto thee, and whatsoever gifts besides they remitted unto 6 thee: and I give thee leave to coin money for thy country 5. This verse begins the apodosis to the protasis in vv. 3, 4. (he exactions] The tributes, virt
The Cambridge Bible for schools and colleges . oopsfrom Rhodes to the coast of Syria. He would probably land atSeleucia. 250 I. MACCABEES, XV. [vv. 5, 6. the country, that I may punish them that have destroyedour country, and them that have made many cities in the 5 kingdom desolate: Now therefore I confirm unto thee allthe exactions which the kings that were before me remittedunto thee, and whatsoever gifts besides they remitted unto 6 thee: and I give thee leave to coin money for thy country 5. This verse begins the apodosis to the protasis in vv. 3, 4. (he exactions] The tributes, virtually, remissions of tribute, assome MSS. read. whatsoever gifts besides] the auruni coronariuni (see note onX. 29), and gifts of honour apart from fixed charges. 6. I give thee leave to coin money] Jewish coins appear, however, tohave been issued in Simons time before he got this formal right of coinage was, in fact, an attribute of the independence whichhad been granted to Judaea (xiii. 41, 42), or at all events had been. Silver Shekel of Simon Maccabaeus. Obv. In archaic Hebrew characters 7t^l5J* TJpt^. shekel of Israel. A cup orchalice, on either side a pellet: above the cup the letter ^, the numeral letter for one, indicating the first year of Simons mintages. Rev. t]^1p D ?EJ1T» Jertisaletnthe holy. A central device (? Aarons rod). (From Maddens Coins of the Jews (1881), p. 67.) interpreted as such, and was enjoyed at this period by several free citiesof the Syrian kingdom. The coins issued in virtue of the assumptionof this privilege are to be regarded not so much as coins of Simon as ofthe civic commune of Jerusalem in his day. The year numbers on thecoins may also be those of a civil era of Jerusalem, as also other citiesof Phoenicia, such as Tyre, Sidon, Ascalon, had begun toward the endof the second century , in token of the freedom which they hadobtained, to adopt a cycle of their own (Schiirer, i. i. p. 258). If, onthe other hand, they
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