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4 Maccabees 8:25-27
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 8:25-27
Revised Standard Version
25 Not even the law itself would arbitrarily slay us for fearing the instruments of torture. 26 Why does such contentiousness excite us and such a fatal stubbornness please us, when we can live in peace if we obey the king?”
27 But the youths, though about to be tortured, neither said any of these things nor even seriously considered them.
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