2 Maccabees 4:11-13

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¹¹ He set aside the existing royal concessions to the Jews, secured through John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to establish friendship and alliance with the Romans, and he destroyed the lawful ways of living and introduced new customs contrary to the law.^{(A) 12} He took delight in establishing a gymnasium right under the citadel, and he induced the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek hat.^{(B) 13} There was such an extreme of Hellenization and increase in the adoption of foreign ways because of the surpassing wickedness of Jason, who was ungodly and no true^[a] high priest,^(C)