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2 Maccabees 3:38-40
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 3:38-40
Revised Standard Version
38 “If you have any enemy or plotter against your government, send him there, for you will get him back thoroughly scourged, if he escapes at all, for there certainly is about the place some power of God. 39 For he who has his dwelling in heaven watches over that place himself and brings it aid, and he strikes and destroys those who come to do it injury.” 40 This was the outcome of the episode of Heliodor′us and the protection of the treasury.
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