4 Maccabees 8:26-28

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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. ²⁸ For they were contemptuous of the passions and sovereign over agonies,