Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Bible in a Year Podcast,

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Using the great Adventure Bible timeline will read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

It is day 301. We reading from the second book of Maccabees, chapter 4, as well as

Proverbs, chapter 24, verses 13 through 16. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is

the revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the great Adventure Bible

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daily episodes and daily updates, little known fact that you can do that. It is day 301. We're

reading second Maccabees, chapter 4, Sirac 4748 and 49, and Proverbs, chapter 24, verses 13 through 16.

The second book of the Maccabees, chapter 4, Simon accuses Onayus. The previously mentioned

Simon, who had informed about the money against his own country, slandered Onayus, saying that it

was he who had incited Heliodorus and had been the real cause of the misfortune. He dared to

designate as a plodder against the government, the man who was the benefactor of the city,

the protector of his fellow countrymen, and his zealot for the laws. When his hatred progressed

to such a degree that even murders were committed by one of Simon's approved agents, Onayus

recognized that the rivalry was serious and that Apolognes, the son of Menace Theus, the governor

of Quail Syria and Phoenicia, was intensifying the malice of Simon. So he betook himself to the

king, not accusing his fellow citizens, but having in view the welfare, both public and private,

of all the people. For he saw that without the king's attention, public affairs could not

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