3 Maccabees 3:20-22

Revised Standard Version

²⁰ “But we, when we arrived in Egypt victorious, accommodated ourselves to their folly and did as was proper, since we treat all nations with benevolence. ²¹ Among other things, we made known to all our amnesty toward their compatriots here, both because of their alliance with us and the myriad affairs liberally entrusted to them from the beginning; and we ventured to make a change, by deciding both to deem them worthy of Alexandrian citizenship and to make them participants in our regular religious rites.^{[a] 22} But in their innate malice they took this in a contrary spirit, and disdained what is good. Since they incline constantly to evil,