3 Maccabees 3:18-20

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¹⁸ they were carried away by their traditional arrogance and excluded us from entering, but they were spared the exercise of our power because of the benevolence that we have toward all.^{(A) 19} By maintaining their manifest ill-will toward us, they become the only people among all nations who hold their heads high in defiance of kings and their own benefactors and are unwilling to regard any action as sincere.^(B)

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.