THEOSISJerome of Stridon
A shoot will rise from its roots and will come with a host, entering the territory of the northern king, acting according to his own purpose and gaining control over it. He will capture their deities, statues, and valuable gold and silver artifacts and take them to Egypt, proving mightier than the king of the north. The king of the south will venture into the kingdom but will eventually return to his own territory. Following the assassination of Berenice, after the death of her father Ptolemy Philadelphus in Egypt, her sibling Ptolemy, known as Euergetes, ascended to the throne as a branch from her lineage, being her own brother. He arrived with a formidable army and invaded the domain of the northern king, Seleucus, known as Callinicus, who ruled alongside his mother, Laodicea, in Syria.
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He acted freely and seized control of the region, claiming Syria, Cilicia, and the territories beyond the Euphrates, nearly all of Asia. However, upon learning of an insurrection in Egypt, he ransacked Seleucus's kingdom, acquiring forty thousand talents of silver and two thousand five hundred precious vessels and idols, including those Cambyses had sent to Persia after Egypt's conquest. The idolatrous Egyptians referred to him as Euergetes the benefactor for having returned their gods after many years. He retained Syria for himself, while Cilicia was entrusted to his associate Antiochus, and the regions beyond the Euphrates were given to another commander, Xanthippus.