3 Maccabees 6:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁴ ‘You are committing treason and surpassing tyrants in cruelty; and even me, your benefactor, you are now attempting to deprive of dominion and life by secretly devising acts of no advantage to the kingdom. ²⁵ Who has driven from their homes those who faithfully kept our country’s fortresses, and foolishly gathered every one of them here? ²⁶ Who is it that has so lawlessly encompassed with outrageous treatment those who from the beginning differed from^[a] all nations in their goodwill towards us and often have accepted willingly the worst of human dangers?