This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a bewrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils.
This same Simon we mentioned earlier, the one who had betrayed the temple funds and his own country, now slandered Onias, claiming he was the one who had frightened Heliodorus and caused all the trouble.
