4 Maccabees 5:16

¹⁴While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak.

¹⁵And having received power to speak, he began thus to deliver himself:

— 4 Maccabees 5:16 —

¹⁷wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.

¹⁸And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion.