Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 5:18
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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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;
17wherefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law.
— 4 Maccabees 5:18 —
19Think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense.
20For transgression of the law, whether in small or great matters, is of equal moment;