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For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.
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Will you not awake from your trifling philosophy? and give up the folly of your notions; and, regaining understanding worthy of your age, search into the truth of an expedient course?
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and, reverencing my kindly admonition, have pity upon your own years?
13
For, bear in mind, that if there be any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.
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While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of flesh, Eleazar begged permission to speak.
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And having received power to speak, he began thus to deliver himself:
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