quippe qui lege, et patria, sanctoque templo privari vererentur: ac populum, qui nuper paululum respirasset, ne sineret blasphemis rursus nationibus subdi.
Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in subjection to blasphemous nations.
Quippe qui lege, et patria, et sancto templo priva vereor: et populo, qui nuper paul(l)ulum respira, ne sine blaspha iterum ad nationes subde.