1 Maccabees 15:20-22

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁰ And it has seemed good to us to accept the shield from them. ²¹ Therefore if any pestilent men have fled to you from their country, hand them over to Simon the high priest, that he may punish them according to their law.”

²² The consul^[a] wrote the same thing to Deme′trius the king and to At′talus and Ariar′athes and Ar′saces,