4 Maccabees 4:12-14

Revised Standard Version

¹² For he said that he had committed a sin deserving of death, and that if he were delivered he would praise the blessedness of the holy place before all people. ¹³ Moved by these words, Oni′as the high priest, although otherwise he had scruples about doing so, prayed for him lest King Seleu′cus suppose that Apollo′nius had been overcome by human treachery and not by divine justice. ¹⁴ So Apollo′nius, having been preserved beyond all expectations, went away to report to the king what had happened to him.