4
But the King of kings moved Antiochus' mind against this wicked wretch; and Lysias informed the king that this man was the cause of all evil, so that the king commanded to bring him unto Berea and to put him to death, in the manner of that place.
5
Now there was in that place a tower of fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had a round instrument which on every side hung down into the ashes.
6
And whosoever was condemned of sacrilege, or had committed any other grievous crime, there did all men thrust him unto death.
7
Such a death it happened that that wicked man died, not having so much as burial in the earth, and that most justly.
8
For inasmuch as he had committed many sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes.
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