2 Maccabees 4:48

2 Maccabees 4:48 Context

⁴⁶Whereupon Ptolomee taking the king aside into a certaine gallerie, as it were to take the aire, brought him to be of another minde; ⁴⁷Insomuch that hee discharged Menelaus from the accusations, who notwithstanding was cause of all the mischiefe: and those poore men, who if they had told their cause, yea, before the Scythians, should haue bene iudged innocent, them he condemned to death. ⁴⁸Thus they that followed the matter for the citie, and for the people, and for the holy vessels, did soone suffer vniust punishment. ⁴⁹Wherefore euen they of Tyrus mooued with hatred of that wicked deed, caused them to bee honourably buried. ⁵⁰And so through the couetousnesse of them that were in power, Menelaus remained still in authority, increasing in malice, and being a great traitour to the citizens.

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