Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 9:5
Source: Septuagint
Original
5And you think to scare us, by threatening us with death by tortures, as though thou hadst learned nothing by the death of Eleazar.
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3O tyrant, counselor of lawbreaking, do not, hating us as thou dost, pity us more than we pity ourselves.
4For we account your pity of us on the terms of unlawful escape to be worse than death.
— 4 Maccabees 9:5 —
6But if aged men of the Hebrews have died in the cause of religion after enduring torture, more rightly should we younger men die, scorning your cruel tortures, which our aged instructor overcame.
7Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if thou puttest us to death for our religion, think not that thou harmest us by torturing us.