4 Maccabees 5:36-38

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³⁶ You, O king,^[a] shall not defile the honorable mouth of my old age nor my long life lived lawfully. ³⁷ My ancestors will receive me as pure, as one who does not fear your violence even to death.^{(A) 38} You will tyrannize the ungodly, but you shall not dominate my reasonings on behalf of piety, either by words or through deeds.”