The change of policy from conciliation to cruel persecution, which makes the reign of Epi phanes an era in the relation of the Jews to the Syrian monarchy, has perhaps had great perma nent moral results. It is not impossible that per severance in the conciliating plan might have sapped the energy of Jewish national faith; while it is certain that persecution kindled their zeal and cemented their unity. Jerusaleri, by its suf ferings, became only the more sacred in the eve; of its absent citizens, who vied in replacing the wealth which the sacrilegious Fpiphanes had rav ished.
(5) Antfoehus V (Eupator) and Antiochus VI. Besides Antiochus Epiphanes. the book f Maccabees mentions his son, called Antiochn. Eupator, and another young Antiochus, son of Alexander 1)alas, the usurper, both of whom were murdered at a tender age.
(0) Antloehus VII. in the two last chapters of the book another Antiochus appears. called by the Greeks Sidetes, front the town of Sida, in Pamphylia. This is the last king of that house whose reputation and power were not unworthy of the great name of Seleticits. In the year 11 C. t34 he besiegyd Jerusalem, and having taken it next year, after a severe siege he pulled down the walls and reduced the nation once more to subjection. after only ten years' in lependence His moderation and re gaol for the;r religion feelings a e contrasted by Joseplins with the un piety of Epiphany-, An outline of the deeds of the kings of Syria in .%va, and peace, down to Anuochus Epiphanes, lb presented in the tall chapter of Daniel, in which Epiphanes and his father are the two principal figures. Nothing but ignorance or a heated imagi nation can account for some modern expositors referring that chapter to the events of the eight eenth century after Christ.
(7) Table of Kings. The most compact and unbroken account of the kings of this dynasty is to be found in Appian's book (De Rebus Syriacis), at the end. The dates of the following table are taken from Clinton's Fasti Hellenici, vol. iii, Appendix, chap. iii : I. Seleucus Nicator, B. C. 312-280.
2. Antiochus Soter, his son, 280-261.
3. Antiochus Theos, his son, 261-247.
4. Seleucus Callinicus, his son, 247-226.
5. (Alexander, or) Seleucus Ceraunus, his son, 226-223.
6. Antiochus the Great, his brother, 223-187.
7. Seleueus Philopator, his son, 187-176.
8. Antiochus Epiphanes, his brother, 176-164. g. Antiochus Eupator, his son (a minor), 164 162.
10. Demetrius Soter, son of Seleucus Philopator, 162-150.
II. Alexander Balas, a usurper, who pretends to be son of Antiochus Epiphanes, and is acknowledged by the Romans, 152-146.
12. _Antiochus Theos, or Alexander (a minor), son of the preceding. He is murdered by the usurper Trypho, who contests the king dom till 14o.
13. Demetrius Nicator, son of Demetrius Suter, reigns 146-141, when he was captured by the Parthians.
14. Antiochus Sidetes, his brother, 141-128. ANTIPAS (an'ti-pa's), (Gr. 'Avriras, an-tee'ptzs).
1. A faithful witness or martyr mentioned in Rev. ii:13 (A. D. before Too). He is said to have been one of our Savior's first disciples and a bishop of Pergamus, and to have been put to death in a tumult there by the priests of iEscula pins, who had a celebrated temple in that city. Tradition relates that he was burned in a brazen bull under Domitian.
2. Antipas, or Herod Antipas, was the son of Herod the Great by Malthace, a Samaritan. He inherited of his father's dominions Galilee and Perea, as tetrarch. He was the Herod who exe cuted John the Baptist. (See HERODIAN FAMILY.)