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4 Maccabees 11:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 11:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 I have come of my own accord so that by murdering me you will incur punishment from the heavenly justice for even more crimes. 4 Hater of virtue, hater of humankind, for what act of ours are you destroying us in this way? 5 Is it because[a] we revere the Creator of all things and live according to his virtuous law?
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- 11.5 Other ancient authorities read Or does it seem evil to you that
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