2 Maccabees 4:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

4 But Simon, of whom we spoke before, and of his country, spoke ill of Onias, as though he had incited Heliodorus to do these things, and had been the promoter of evils:

² And he presumed to call him a traitor to the kingdom, who provided for the city, and defended his nation, and was zealous for the law of God.

³ But when the enmities proceeded so far, that murders also were committed by some of Simon's friends: