4 Maccabees 7:23

²¹since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,

²²and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?

— 4 Maccabees 7:23 —

²⁴Whence it is, that even boys, imbued with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures:

²⁵for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing—