4 Maccabees 6:29

29 Make my blood their purification, and take my life in exchange for theirs."

4 Maccabees 6:29 In-Context

27 "You know, O God, that though I might have saved myself, I am dying in burning torments for the sake of the law.

28 Be merciful to your people, and let our punishment suffice for them.

29 Make my blood their purification, and take my life in exchange for theirs."

30 After he said this, the holy man died nobly in his tortures; even in the tortures of death he resisted, by virtue of reason, for the sake of the law.

31 Admittedly, then, devout reason is sovereign over the emotions.