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4 Maccabees 8:23-25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 8:23-25
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 Why do we banish ourselves from this most pleasant life and deprive ourselves of this delightful world? 24 Let us not struggle against compulsion[a] or take hollow pride in being put to the rack. 25 Not even the law itself would consent to put us to death for fearing the instruments of torture.
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