Is the Holy Bible 100% perfect?

[Schultz]

Wow. I've never heard that story! It is indeed beautiful!

[ORPRcamper]

I would like to thank Nick Harmon for the story of St. Symeon.
I wish I had eniugh time to make posts like that one.

[Reader Michael]

Nick Harmon,

I read that somewhere before, but this time I was really struck by the beauty! Thank you.

Thank God, not me.

orprcmpr had the insight to relate St Simeon's life to this Subject ("Is the Holy Bible 100% perfect?") and it was his suggestion to remember St Simeon! I only followed up on his advice and sought out the text.

How old was St Simeon when he departed? (died on Feb 3, the day after the Presentation (Meeting of our Lord) celebrated on the 2nd)

Ptolemy II Philadelphus reigned from 285 - 246 BC. At the latest, St Simeon would have been translating in 246 and must have by then been at least 30 years old? (to be a scholar), so he had to be about 275 years old when he received the Lord in the Temple in Jerusalem.

Found the following background on the web:

Ptolemy II (Ptolemy Philadelphus), c. 308–246 B.C., king of ancient Egypt (285–246 B.C.), of the Macedonian dynasty, son of Ptolemy I and Berenice (c. 340–281 B.C.). He continued his father's efforts to make Alexandria the cultural center of the Greek world. He completed the Pharos and encouraged the translation of the Pentateuch into the Greek Septuagint. Finances were reformed, and a canal was built from the Nile to the Red Sea. He warred against Syria until he married his daughter Berenice to the Syrian Antiochus II. Ptolemy repudiated his wife Arsinoë to marry his sister, also named Arsinoë. Manetho, the Egyptian historian, compiled his history.
See P. M. Fraser, Ptolemaic Alexandria (3 vol., 1972).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press

Ptolemy II
Ptolemy II (309-246 BC) was commonly called Ptolemy Philadelphus ("brotherly"), king of Egypt (285-246 BC). He was one of the younger sons of Ptolemy I by his wife Berenice I who died before 283 BC. Ptolemy II was perhaps the most important Egyptian ruler when we consider the history of the Nabataeans.

During his wars with the Seleucid king Antiochus I, he established Ptolemaic Egypt as the dominant maritime power in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The economy of Egypt was brought under government control and the cultural life at the Alexandrian court flourished. The Greek poets Callimachus and Theocritus were among the literary figures connected with the court. Ptolemy II increased the number of books in the Library of Alexandria and was an active patron of literature and scholarship. He continued his father's dream of collecting all the known knowledge and wisdom of the civilizations of the world, and so authorized many sailing expeditions to travel to far shores in search of wisdom.
http://www.nabataea.net/ptolomy.html

Another interesting, mostly unrelated, bit of information: Cleopatra and Mark Anthony apparently named their son Ptolomy Philadelphus in a conscious attempt to re-create a dynasty.

Ptolemy Philadelphus (36 - 12 BC) was the youngest child of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Augustus Caesar took him and his sister Cleopatra Selene back to Rome as captives after their parents killed themselves (and their two brothers died) in 30 BC, and they lived with Octavia, who was Augustus's sister and had been Antony's wife. Ptolemy became a chariot racer and died in an accident on the track, competing against his chief rival, Antipater, the son of King Herod the Great of Judea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_Philadelphus