4 Maccabees 3:20-21

Revised Standard Version

²⁰ At a time when our fathers were enjoying profound peace because of their observance of the law and were prospering, so that even Seleu′cus Nica′nor, king of Asia, had both appropriated money to them for the temple service and recognized their commonwealth— ²¹ just at that time certain men attempted a revolution against the public harmony and caused many and various disasters.