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IV Maccabees 6:20
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It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,
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for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
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and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.
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It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,
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and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.
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Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.