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IV Maccabees 6:17-27
IV Maccabees 6
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IV Maccabees 6:17-27
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Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretence;
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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.
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Ye spearbearers of the tyrant, why do ye linger?
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Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:
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then with their wickedly-contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils.
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And he being at length burnt down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said,
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Thou knowest, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire.
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