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But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.
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Then the high priest told him that these were sums deposited, and provisions for the subsistence of the widows and the fatherless.
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And that some part of that which wicked Simon had given intelligence of, belonged to Hircanus son of Tobias, a man of great dignity: and that the whole was four hundred talents of silver, and two hundred of gold:
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But that to deceive them who had trusted to the place and temple which is honoured throughout the whole world, for the reverence and holiness of it, was a thing which could not by any means be done.
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But he, by reason of the orders he had received from the king, said that by :all means the money must be carried to the king.
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So on the day he had appointed, Heliodorus entered in to order this mat- tar. But there was no small terror throughout the whole city.