2 Maccabees 4:6
“For he saw that it was impossible, that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leaue his folly, vnlesse the king did looke thereunto.”
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2 Maccabees 4:6 Context
4Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Appollonius, as being the gouernour of Coelosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increase Simons malice, 5He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrey men, but seeking the good of all, both publike, & priuate. 6For he saw that it was impossible, that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leaue his folly, vnlesse the king did looke thereunto. 7But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus called Epiphanes, tooke the kingdom, Iason the brother of Onias, laboured vnder hand to bee hie Priest, 8Promising vnto the king by intercession, three hundred and threescore talents of siluer, and of another reuenew, eightie talents:
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For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto.
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