| The old Mesopotamian cities continued, as in the preceding period, their own life under the Seleucids. |
| It was already remarked that the Seleucids controlled their territory by a division in satrapies, eparchies and hipparchies. |
| The remarkable thing is that the Hasidim-Pharisees who were the fathers of the Talmud did not wish to record therein their war and the military victory against the Seleucids. |
| Now not only Rome's allies against Philip, but even Philip himself, sought a Roman alliance against the Seleucids. |
| This service had been interrupted by the Seleucids and all the oil in the Temple had been defiled. |
| Paul, as a native of Asia Minor, would have been familiar with the Hellenistic colony-cities of Judean mercenaries founded by the Seleucids to control the local inhabitants. |
