2 Maccabees 4:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ But when the enmities proceeded so far, that murders also were committed by some of Simon's friends:

⁴ Onias considering the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, who was the governor of Celesyria and Phenicia, was outrageous, which increased the malice of Simon, went to the king,

⁵ Not to be an accuser of his countrymen, but with a view to the common good of all the people.