Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 8:24
Source: Septuagint
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24The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.
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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.
— 4 Maccabees 8:24 —
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?
26But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.