3:36 Then testified he to all men the works of the great God, which he had seen with his eyes.
3:37 And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,
3:38 If thou hast any enemy or traitor, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him well scourged, if he escape with his life: for in that place, no doubt; there is an especial power of God.
3:39 For he that dwelleth in heaven hath his eye on that place, and defendeth it; and he beateth and destroyeth them that come to hurt it.
3:40 And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury, fell out on this sort.
4:1 This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.
4:2 Thus was he bold to call him a traitor, that had deserved well of the city, and tendered his own nation, and was so zealous of the laws.
4:3 But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon’s faction murders were committed,
4:4 Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increase Simon’s malice,
4:5 He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both publick and private: