19. "To the very good citizens of the Jews, Antiochus, king and ruler, wishes much health, and welfare, and happiness.
20. If you and your sons are faring well, and if everything is according to your will, we give very great thanks.
21. And so, fixed in infirmity, yet kindly remembering you, I am returning from the places of Persia, and, having been seized by a serious infirmity, I considered it necessary to have a concern for the common good,
22. not despairing in myself, but having a great hope to escape the infirmity.