Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 8:17
Source: Septuagint
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17Why do we cheer ourselves with vain counsels, and venture upon a disobedience bringing death?
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15Now let us consider the matter: had any of them been weak spirited and cowardly among them, what reasonings would they have employed but such as these?
16O wretched that we are, and exceeding senseless! when the king exhorts us, and calls us to his bounty, should we not obey him?
— 4 Maccabees 8:17 —
18Shall we not fear, O brethren, the instruments of torture, and weigh the threatenings of torment, and shun this vainglory and destructive pride?
19Let us have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother.