Esdra 6:8

Inoltre do un decreto che cosa farete agli anziani di questi ebrei per la costruzione di questa casa di Dio: che dei beni del re, [anche] del tributo oltre il fiume, siano immediatamente date spese a questi uomini, affinché essi non essere ostacolato.

Ver. 8. Moreover I make a decree] So did some of the heathen emperors for the persecuted Christians, Charles V for the Lutherans (at the motion of Albertus, archbishop of Mentz, and Ludovicus, palatine of Rhine), and Henry III of France for the Protestants; which yet was but sorrily observed though sworn to. It is written by an Italian (no stranger to the court of Rome) that their proverb is, Mercatorum est, non regum stare iuramentis, that it is for merchants, and not for kings, to keep to their oaths.