And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth and fight with him, [even] with the king of the north: and he shall set forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
Ver. 11. And the king of the south.] Ptolemaeus Philopator, so called, say some, per antiphrasin, because he killed his father. He slew also his both sister and wife Eurydice, and was otherwise very vicious, and yet victorious.
Even with the king of the north,] i.e., With Antiochus the Great, who was so called perhaps, saith one, a for undertaking much, and performing little.
And he shall set forth a great multitude.] Sixty-two thousand footmen and six thousand horsemen.
And the multitude.] Antiochus's army, himself hardly escaping with life through the deserts. b
a Pausan., lib. v.
b Spoliavisset regno Antiochum, si fortunam virtute iuvisset. - Justin.