So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:

So Ptolemee went to the king in a certain court where he was, as it were to cool himself, and brought him to be of another mind:

2 Maccabees 4:44
And when the king was come to Tyre, three men were sent from the ancients to plead the cause before him.

2 Maccabees 4:45
But Menelaus being convicted, promised Ptolemee to give him much money to persuade the king to favour him.

2 Maccabees 4:47
So Menelaus, who was guilty of all the evil, was acquitted by him of the accusations: and those poor men, who, if they had pleaded their cause even before Scythians, should have been judged innocent, were condemned to death.

2 Maccabees 4:48
Thus they that persecuted the cause for the city, and for the people, and the sacred vessels, did soon suffer unjust punishment.