4 Maccabees 4:5-7

Revised Standard Version

⁵ On receiving authority to deal with this matter, he proceeded quickly to our country accompanied by the accursed Simon and a very strong military force. ⁶ He said that he had come with the king’s authority to seize the private funds in the treasury. ⁷ The people indignantly protested his words, considering it outrageous that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, and did all that they could to prevent it.