Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 6:20
Source: Septuagint
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20It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,
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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,
19and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.
— 4 Maccabees 6:20 —
21and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.
22Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.