IV Maccabees 11:14

14 I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;

IV Maccabees 11:14 In-Context

12 A great favour thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.

13 He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,

14 I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;

15 for having been born and reared unto the same end, we are bound to die also in behalf of the same cause.

16 So that if ye think proper to torment us for not eating the unclean;—torment!