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For he who has his dwelling in heaven watches over that place himself and brings it aid, and he strikes and destroys those who come to do it injury."
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When the king asked Heliodorus what sort of person would be suitable to send on another mission to Jerusalem, he replied,
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"If you have any enemy or plotter against your government, send him there, for you will get him back thoroughly flogged, if he survives at all; for there is certainly some power of God about the place.
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For he who has his dwelling in heaven watches over that place himself and brings it aid, and he strikes and destroys those who come to do it injury."
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This was the outcome of the episode of Heliodorus and the protection of the treasury.
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