4 Maccabees 9:4-6

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⁴ For we consider this pity of yours, which ensures our safety through transgression of the law, to be more grievous than death itself. ⁵ You are trying to terrify us by threatening us with death by torture, as though a short time ago you learned nothing from Eleazar.^{(A) 6} And if, on account of piety, the aged men of the Hebrews fulfilled their pious duty while enduring torture, it would be even more fitting that we young men should die despising your coercive tortures, which our aged instructor also overcame.