Erat autem hujuscemodi visus: Oniam, qui fuerat summus sacerdos, virum bonum et benignum, verecundum visu, modestum moribus, et eloquio decorum, et qui a puero in virtutibus exercitatus sit, manus protendentem orare pro omni populo Judæorum.
Now the vision was in this manner. Onias, who had been high priest, a good and virtuous man, modest in his looks, gentle in his manners, and graceful in speech, and who from a child was exercised in virtues holding up his hands, prayed for all the people of the Jews:
Es autem huiuscemodudi viso: oniase, qui es summo sacerdote, viro bono et benigno, verecundo visu, modesto mores, et eloquio decore, et qui ab puero in virtutes exercita es, manus protende ora pro omni populo de Iudaeos.