2 Maccabees 5:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ Otherwise had they not been involved in many sins, as Heliodorus, who was sent by king Seleucus to rob the treasury, so this man also, as soon as he had come, had been forthwith scourged, and put back from his presumption.

¹⁹ But God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place for the people's sake.

²⁰ And therefore the place also itself was made partaker of the evils of the people: but afterward shall communicate in the good things thereof, and as it was forsaken in the wrath of almighty God, shall be exalted again with great glory, when the great Lord shall be reconciled.