IV Maccabees 8:20-27

20 And let us bear in mind that we shall be dying as rebels.
21 And Divine Justice will pardon us if we fear the king through necessity.
22 Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?
23 Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation.
24 The law itself is not forward to put us to death, if we dread torture.
25 Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?
26 But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured.
27 For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains. So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they altogether with one voice, as from the same heart said:

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