2 Maccabees 4:7 Context

⁴Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increase Simon's malice, ⁵He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both publick and private: 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 laboured underhand to be high priest, ⁸Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents: ⁹Beside this, he promised to assign an hundred and fifty more, if he might have licence to set him up a place for exercise, and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians. ¹⁰Which when the king had granted, and he had gotten into his hand the rule he forthwith brought his own nation to Greekish fashion.

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