4 Maccabees 11:14

¹²A great favor thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.

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,

— 4 Maccabees 11:14 —

¹⁵for having been born and reared unto the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.

¹⁶So that if thou think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean—torment!