Holy Scripture
2 Maccabees 4:5
Source: Septuagint
Original
5he went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both public and private:
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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 Coelesyria and Phoenicia, did rage, and increase Simon’s malice,
— 2 Maccabees 4:5 —
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 labored underhand to be high priest,