2 Maccabees 4:11-13

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹¹ And abolishing those things, which had been decreed of special favour by the kings in behalf of the Jews, by the means of John the father of that Eupolemus, who went ambassador to Rome to make amity and alliance, he disannulled the lawful ordinances of the citizens, and brought in fashions that were perverse.

¹² For he had the boldness to set up, under the very castle, a place of exercise, and to put all the choicest youths in brothel houses.

¹³ Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of heathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch and no priest.