2 Maccabees 4:18

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2 Maccabees 4:18 (WEB)
Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present,

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Ambrose of Milan, Letters Letter 57
“For when in the city of Tyre the quinquennial game was being kept, and the intensely wicked King of Antioch had come to witness it, Jason appointed officers of sacred rites, who were Antiochians, to carry three hundred didrachms of silver from Jerusalem, and give them to the sacrifice of Hercules.” — editor's note: 2 Macc. iv. 18, ff.
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Psalm 119:46
Cited together in Letters Letter 57.
Romans 13:7
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