11. Since we have been saved by God from grave dangers, we give him great thanks as befits those who fought against the king;
12. for it was God who drove out those who fought against the holy city.
13. When their leader arrived in Persia with his seemingly irresistible army, they were cut to pieces in the temple of the goddess Nanea through a deceitful stratagem employed by Nanea’s priests.
14. On the pretext of marrying the goddess, Antiochus with his Friends had come to the place to get its great treasures as a dowry.
15. When the priests of Nanea’s temple had displayed the treasures and Antiochus with a few attendants had come inside the wall of the temple precincts, the priests locked the temple as soon as he entered.
16. Then they opened a hidden trapdoor in the ceiling, and hurling stones at the leader and his companions, struck them down. They dismembered the bodies, cut off their heads and tossed them to the people outside.
17. Forever blessed be our God, who has thus punished the impious!