IV Maccabees 4:5-15

5 and getting authority about it, and quickly advancing into our country with the accursed Simon and a very heavy force,
6 he said that he came with the commands of the king that he should take the private money of the treasure.
7 And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could.
8 But Appolonius went away with threats into the temple.
9 And the priests, with the women and children, having supplicated God to throw his shield over the holy, despised place,
10 and Appolonius going up with his armed force to the seizure of the treasure, —there appeared from heaven angels riding on horseback, all radiant in armour, filling them with much fear and trembling.
11 And Apollonius fell half dead upon the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and propitiate the heavenly host.
12 For he said that he had sinned, so as to be consequently worthy of death; and that if he were saved, he would celebrate to all men the blessedness of the holy place.
13 Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that king Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him;
14 and he being thus unexpectedly saved, departed to manifest to the king what had happened to him.
15 But on the death of Seleucus the king, his son Antiochus Epiphanes succeeds to the kingdom: a man of haughty pride and terrible.

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