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For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man would haved forthwith been scourged and turned back from his presumption as soon as he had come, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.
16
And taking the holy vessels with polluted hands, and with profane hands pulling down the things that were dedicated by other kings for the augmentation and glory and honor of the place, he gave them away.
17
And so haughty was Antiochus in mind, that he considered not that the Lord was angry for a while for the sins of those who dwelt in the city, and therefore His eye was not upon the place.
18
For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man would haved forthwith been scourged and turned back from his presumption as soon as he had come, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.
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Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place for the people's sake.
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And therefore the place itself, which was partaker with them in the adversities that happened to the nation, afterward participated in the benefits sent from the Lord; and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up in all glory.
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