3 Maccabees 2:31-33

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³¹ Now some, with an obvious abhorrence of the price to be exacted for maintaining the piety of their city,^[a] readily gave themselves up, since they expected to enhance their reputation by their future association with the king.^{(A) 32} But the majority acted firmly with a courageous spirit and did not abandon their piety, and by paying money in exchange for life they boldly attempted to save themselves from the registration.^{(B) 33} They remained resolutely hopeful of obtaining help, and they abhorred those who separated themselves from them, considering them to be enemies of the nation and depriving them of common fellowship and mutual help.