to the thousand] In this number are five and fourty dayes more then in the former, &it is like that they were from the re-establishment of Gods service unto Antiochus his plague, 1 Mac. 6. 8 9. of which he died, after he had languished many dayes, 1 Mac. 6. 16. whereby the people were freed from his tyrannie: in the 149. of the Seleucidae. 1 Mac. 6. 16.