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By reason thereof sore calamity came upon them; for they held them to be their enemies and avengers whose custom they followed so earnestly and unto whom they desired to be like in all things.
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For it is not a light thing to do wickedly against the laws of God, but the time followig shall declare these things.
18
Now when the game that was held every fifth year was kept at Tyre, the king being present,
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this ungracious Jason sent special messengers from Jerusalem, who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred drachmas of silver for the sacrifice to Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought not fit to bestow upon the sacrifice because it was not proper, but to be reserved for other charges.
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This money then, as intended by the sender, was appointed for Hercules' sacrifice; but because of the bearers thereof, it was employed in the making of galleys.
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