2 Maccabees 4:13-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹³ Now this was not the beginning, but an increase, and progress of heathenish and foreign manners, through the abominable and unheard of wickedness of Jason, that impious wretch and no priest.

¹⁴ Insomuch that the priests were not now occupied about the offices of the altar, but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the games, and of the unlawful allowance thereof, and of the exercise of the discus.

¹⁵ And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best: