IV Maccabees 8:22

22 Why withdraw ourselves from a most sweet life, and deprive ourselves of this pleasant world?

IV Maccabees 8:22 In-Context

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.