3 Maccabees 3:10

⁸Nor was this unexpected uproar and sudden conflux of people unobserved by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them: yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around; but they encouraged the Jews by sympathizing with them in their troubles, and expected a favorable turn of affairs:

⁹He who knoweth all things, will not, said they, disregard so great a people.

— 3 Maccabees 3:10 —

¹¹Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews.

¹²King Ptolemy Philopator, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness!