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4 Maccabees 7:8-10
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 7:8-10
Revised Standard Version
8 Such should be those who are administrators of the law, shielding it with their own blood and noble sweat in sufferings even to death. 9 You, father, strengthened our loyalty to the law through your glorious endurance, and you did not abandon the holiness which you praised, but by your deeds you made your words of divine[a] philosophy credible. 10 O aged man, more powerful than tortures; O elder, fiercer than fire; O supreme king over the passions, Elea′zar!
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- 4 Maccabees 7:9 Other ancient authorities omit divine
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