2 Maccabees 4:4

2 Maccabees 4:4 Context

¹This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils. ²Thus was he bold to call him a traitor, that had deserved well of the city, and tendered his own nation, and was so zealous of the laws. ³But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon's faction murders were committed, ⁴Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increase Simon's malice, ⁵He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both publick and private: ⁶For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto. ⁷But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest,

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