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IV Maccabees 6
IV Maccabees 6:20-30
IV Maccabees 6
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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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Be merciful to thy people, and be satisfied with the punishment of me on their account.
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Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs.
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Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.
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