Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 11:13
Source: Septuagint
Original
13He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
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11With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
12A great favor thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.
— 4 Maccabees 11:13 —
14I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;
15for having been born and reared unto the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.