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 3:39–40
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