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No sooner did Apollonius find himself in the royal presence than he told the story of the rumoured treasure; and at that, the king sent for Heliodorus, that had charge of his affairs, and despatched him with orders to fetch the said money away. (2 Maccabees 3, 7)
But Heliodorus stood upon the terms of his commission; delivered to the king the money must be, there was no other way of it. (2 Maccabees 3, 13)
watch and ward he keeps over it, that has his dwelling in heaven, to be the plague and the undoing of all who come that way upon an errand of mischief. (2 Maccabees 3, 39)
And now, what must Simon do, the same that had drawn men’s eyes to his country with stories of treasure, but fall to slandering Onias? Onias it was, by his way of it, had egged Heliodorus on,✻ and been the author of the mischief. (2 Maccabees 4, 1)
To this the king assented; high priest he became, and straightway set about perverting his fellow-countrymen to the Gentile way of living. (2 Maccabees 4, 10)
Mischief in the bud, think you, when such alien Gentile ways came in? Nay, here was flower and fruit of it; and all through the unexampled villainy of one man, this Jason, that high priest was none, but rather an arch-traitor. (2 Maccabees 4, 13)
Anon he fell into a rage, stripped Andronicus of his purple, and would have him led away all through the streets, till he reached the very spot where he had lifted his impious hand against Onias. There the sacrilegious wretch perished, by the divine vengeance worthily requited. (2 Maccabees 4, 38)
Ptolemy it was waylaid the king, as he rested from the heat in a covered walk of his, and put him from his purpose. (2 Maccabees 4, 46)
And all about the city of Jerusalem, by the space of forty days together, there were strange sights appearing. High up in air, horsemen were seen riding this way and that, in vesture of gold, and spears they carried as if they went to battle; (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
and so making his way to Lacedaemon, as if to find refuge there by right of kinship, died miserably. In exile he died, that had brought exile on so many; (2 Maccabees 5, 9)
cast away without dole or tomb, that left so many tombless; in a strange land unburied, that might have rested in his fathers’ grave. (2 Maccabees 5, 10)
Nor might all this content him; with Menelaus for his guide, that was traitor to faith and folk, what must he do but make his way into God’s temple, holier in all the world is none? (2 Maccabees 5, 15)
