2 Maccabees 4:9-11

Wycliffe Bible

⁹ over these things he promised also other talents an hundred and fifty, if it were granted to his power, for to ordain a school, and (a) gathering of young men to him; and for to write them that were in Jerusalem (who were known as) (the) Antiochenes, or (the) men of Antiochus.

¹⁰ And when the king had granted this, and he wielded the princehood, anon (or at once) he began to translate to heathen custom(s), (the) men of his lineage. [Which thing when the king had granted, and he wielded the princehood, anon he began for to transfer to heathen custom, or observance, men of his lineage.]

¹¹ And when these things were done away, which by cause (or because) of humanity, either courtesy, were ordained of (or by) kings to (the) Jews by John, the father of Eupolemus, which was ordained in lawful message of friendship and fellowship with (the) Romans, he destroyed (the) rights, or (the) laws, of (the) citizens, and made shrewd (or depraved) ordinances;