4 Maccabees 14:5

5 but all of them, as though running the course toward immortality, hastened to death by torture.

4 Maccabees 14:5 In-Context

3 O sacred and harmonious concord of the seven brothers on behalf of religion!

4 None of the seven youths proved coward or shrank from death,

5 but all of them, as though running the course toward immortality, hastened to death by torture.

6 Just as the hands and feet are moved in harmony with the guidance of the mind, so those holy youths, as though moved by an immortal spirit of devotion, agreed to go to death for its sake.

7 O most holy seven, brothers in harmony! For just as the seven days of creation move in choral dance around religion,