2 Maccabees 2:28-30

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁸ But as they that prepare a feast, and seek to satisfy the will of others: for the sake of many, we willingly undergo the labour.

²⁹ Leaving to the authors the exact handling of every particular, and as for ourselves, according to the plan proposed, studying to be brief.

³⁰ For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the whole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning of it: so must it be judged for us.