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When the king asked Heliodorus what sort of man would be the right person to send to Jerusalem on a second occasion, he replied, (2 Maccabees 3, 37)
'If you have some enemy or anyone disloyal to the state, send him there, and you will get him back well flogged, if he survives at all, since some peculiarly divine power attaches to the holy place. (2 Maccabees 3, 38)
This was the outcome of the affair of Heliodorus and the preservation of the Treasury. (2 Maccabees 3, 40)
The Simon mentioned above as the informer against the funds and against his country began slandering Onias, insinuating that the latter had been responsible for the assault on Heliodorus and himself had contrived this misfortune. (2 Maccabees 4, 1)
Simon now had the effrontery to name this benefactor of the city, this protector of his compatriots, this zealot for the laws, as an enemy of the public good. (2 Maccabees 4, 2)
This hostility reached such proportions that murders were actually committed by some of Simon's agents, (2 Maccabees 4, 3)
He saw that, without some intervention by the king, an orderly administration would no longer be possible, nor would Simon put a stop to his folly. (2 Maccabees 4, 6)
that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but, scorning the Temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke of the gong, to take part in the distribution, forbidden by the Law, of the oil on the exercise ground; (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
setting no store by the honours of their fatherland, they esteemed hellenic glories best of all. (2 Maccabees 4, 15)
the vile Jason sent an embassy of Antiochists from Jerusalem, taking with them three hundred silver drachmas for the sacrifice to Hercules. But even those who brought the money did not think it would be right to spend it on the sacrifice and decided to reserve it for some other item of expenditure; (2 Maccabees 4, 19)
and so what the sender had intended for the sacrifice to Hercules was in fact applied, at the suggestion of those who brought it, to the construction of triremes. (2 Maccabees 4, 20)
Apollonius son of Menestheus had been sent to Egypt to attend the wedding of King Philometor. Antiochus, having learnt that the latter had become hostile to his affairs, began thinking about his own safety: that was why he had come to Joppa. He then moved to Jerusalem, (2 Maccabees 4, 21)
