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2 Maccabees 3:12-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

12. But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.

13. But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said that by: all means the money must be carried to the king.

14. So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this matter. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.

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