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This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he ha terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.
2
Thus was he bold to call him a traitor, that had deserved well of the city, and tendered his own nation, and was so zealous of the laws.
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But when their hatred went so far, that by one of Simon's faction murders were committed,
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Onias seeing the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, as being the governor of Celosyria and Phenice, did rage, and increase Simon's malice,
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He went to the king, not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but seeking the good of all, both publick and private:
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For he saw that it was impossible that the state should continue quiet, and Simon leave his folly, unless the king did look thereunto.
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But after the death of Seleucus, when Antiochus, called Epiphanes, took the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias laboured underhand to be high priest,
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Promising unto the king by intercession three hundred and threescore talents of silver, and of another revenue eighty talents: