26. Now I strongly urge each of you to keep in mind the good things that I have done for you, both individually and as a nation, and to continue in your goodwill towards me and my son.
27. I am confident that he will treat you with fairness and kindness, just as I have always done.”
28. And so, this murderer, who had cursed God, suffered the same terrible agonies he had brought on others, and then died a miserable death in the mountains of a foreign land.
29. One of his close friends, Philip, took his body home; but, because he was afraid of Antiochus' son, he went on to King Ptolemy Philometor of Egypt.