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For the present I might be able to escape what you could do to me, but whether I live or die, I cannot escape Almighty God.
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If I die bravely now, it will show that I deserved my long life.
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It will also set a good example of the way young people should be willing and glad to die for our sacred and respected laws." As soon as he said these things, he went off to be tortured,
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and the very people who had treated him kindly a few minutes before, now turned against him, because they thought he had spoken like a madman.