4 Maccabees 4:12-14

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¹² For he said that he had committed a sin deserving of death and that if he were spared he would praise the blessedness of the holy place before all people.^{(A) 13} Moved by these words, although otherwise cautious lest King Seleucus suppose that Apollonius had been overcome by human treachery and not by divine justice, the high priest Onias prayed for him. ¹⁴ So Apollonius,^[a] having been saved beyond all expectations, went away to report to the king what had happened to him.