4 Maccabees 8:23-25

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²³ Why do we banish ourselves from this most pleasant life and deprive ourselves of this delightful world? ²⁴ Let us not struggle against compulsion^[a] or take hollow pride in being put to the rack. ²⁵ Not even the law itself would arbitrarily put us to death for fearing the instruments of torture.