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Notice what this would do also, it would disenfranchise
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those leading families who didn't want to have their sons Hellenized.
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By holding the control of the education, you disenfranchise
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conservative Jews who are resisting this Greek influence.
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About this time, apparently, Antiochus
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offered citizenship status to the Jews, but, like I said,
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admission to the gymnasium and the ephebe--
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remember the ephebe we talked about how
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the boys around the years 18 to 22 or so
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around the age that you guys are,
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you would be enrolled in this sort of quasi education,
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quasi military training club sort of thing of the town.