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4 Maccabees 8:23-25
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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 consent to put us to death for fearing the instruments of torture.

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  1. 8.24 Or fate
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