Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 8:23
Source: Septuagint
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23Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vainglory by our own excruciation.
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21And Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity.
22Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?
— 4 Maccabees 8:23 —
24The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.
25Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by giving ear to the king?