Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 6:18
Source: Septuagint
Original
18for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
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16And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,
17Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretense;
— 4 Maccabees 6:18 —
19and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.
20It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,