2 Maccabees 3:38-40

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁸ If thou hast any enemy or traitor to thy kingdom, send him thither, and thou shalt receive him again scourged, if so be he escape: for there is undoubtedly in that place a certain power of God.

³⁹ For he that hath his dwelling in the heavens, is the visitor, and protector of that place, and he striketh and destroyeth them that come to do evil to it.

⁴⁰ And the things concerning Heliodorus, and the keeping of the treasury fell out in this manner.