22 Shaking him back and forth as a reed is shaken with the wind, he threw him down on the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed, and by a righteous judgment deprived of the ability to speak. (WEB) 23 His friends and bodyguards, seeing the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him. (WEB) 24 When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe punishment caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings. (WEB)
3 Maccabees 2:22–24
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