For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man, as soon as he had come, had forthwith been scourged, and put back from his presumption, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.
Had the people not already been so deeply mired in sin, this man would have been struck down and turned back from his arrogance the moment he arrived, just as Heliodorus was when King Seleucus sent him to inspect the treasury.
