2 Maccabees 4:11-13

Wycliffe Bible

¹¹ And when these things were done away, which by cause (or because) of humanity, either courtesy, were ordained of (or by) kings to (the) Jews by John, the father of Eupolemus, which was ordained in lawful message of friendship and fellowship with (the) Romans, he destroyed (the) rights, or (the) laws, of (the) citizens, and made shrewd (or depraved) ordinances;

¹² for he was hardy for to ordain a school of heathenness under that high tower, and for to put all the best of (the) fair young men in bordel houses.

¹³ Forsooth this was not (the) beginning, but some increasing and profit of heathen and alien life, for the unleaveful (or the unlawful) and unheard great trespass of unpious(ness), and not priest Jason;