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2 Maccabees 3:38 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “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. "

2 Maccabees 3:38

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36 He testified to all men the works of the greatest God, which he had seen with his eyes.

37 When the king asked Heliodorus what sort of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,

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.

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.”

40 This was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury.

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2 Maccabees 3:1

"When the holy city was inhabited with unbroken peace and the laws were kept very well because of the godliness of Onias the high priest and his hatred of wickedness,"

2 Maccabees 3:2

"it came to pass that even the kings themselves honored the place and glorified the temple with the noblest presents,"

2 Maccabees 3:3

"so that even King Seleucus of Asia bore all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices out of his own revenues."

2 Maccabees 3:4

"But a man named Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, disagreed with the high priest about the ruling of the market in the city."

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"When he couldn’t overcome Onias, he went to Apollonius of Tarsus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia."

2 Maccabees 3:6

"He brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power."

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