38 “If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him there, and you will receive him back well scourged, if he even escapes with his life; because truly there is some power of God in that place. (WEB) 39 For he who has his dwelling in heaven himself has his eyes on that place and helps it. Those who come to hurt it, he strikes and destroys.” (WEB) 40 This was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 3:38–40
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