In his book The Maccabees, Moshe Pearlman writes: “Although the records are not explicit, Antiochus appears to have concluded that allowing the Jews religious latitude had been a political error.
मैनलेस ने ऐन्टिअकस को रिश्‍वत देने के लिए मंदिर के भंडार से मोटी रकम उड़ायी थी ।