4 Maccabees 5:17

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

¹⁶We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law;

— 4 Maccabees 5:17 —

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.

¹⁹Think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense.