25
Since you have not been able to persuade us to change our mind or to force us to eat defiling foods, is not this your downfall?
26
Your fire is cold to us, and the catapults painless, and your violence powerless.
27
For it is not the guards of the tyrant but those of the divine law that are set over us; therefore, unconquered, we hold fast to reason."
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.