Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 8:26
Source: Septuagint
Original
26But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.
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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?
— 4 Maccabees 8:26 —
27For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains. So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counseling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart, said: