Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 8:21
Source: Septuagint
Original
21And Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity.
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19Let us have compassion upon our age and relent over the years of our mother.
20And let us bear in mind that we shall be dying as rebels.
— 4 Maccabees 8:21 —
22Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?
23Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vainglory by our own excruciation.