1 Maccabees 13:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And exhorted them, saying: You know what great battles I and my brethren, and the house of my father, have fought for the laws, and the sanctuary, and the distresses that we have seen:

⁴ By reason whereof all my brethren have lost their lives for Israel's sake, and I am left alone.

⁵ And now far be it from me to spare my life in any time of trouble: for I am not better than my brethren.