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Subscribe now wherever you get your podcast. Thank you for checking out this little teaser of the history of the papacy and church.

Here's a little taste of once coming up soon on the History of the Papacy podcast.

It's almost certainly written by an Alexandrian Jew living a little much later than the time,

at least 100 years.

And so the basic story says follows. There was

Ptolemy, Ptolemy, Ptolemy, Ptolemy, the second Philadelphus. And he was the... I have heard that

initial sound was pronounced exactly as you did at the first time. Ptolemy. So you go to say a PUR, but then you say a T.

Now, to me, it's a really ugly and difficult thing to say.

But I'll just sort of mention it.

So, man, we'll keep, well, maybe we'll run with it.

But he was the son of Alexander the great general,

Potomile.

I'm going with it.

Potolome one Soter, who was in this.

So we'll get into, but so he was born, this, Talami the second was born around 308 BC,

and he died in 246 BC.

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