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4 Maccabees
4 Maccabees 8
4 Maccabees 8:22-29
4 Maccabees 8
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4 Maccabees 8:22-29
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Also, divine justice will excuse us for fearing the king when we are under compulsion.
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Why do we banish ourselves from this most pleasant life and deprive ourselves of this delightful world?
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Let us not struggle against compulsion or take hollow pride in being put to the rack.
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Not even the law itself would arbitrarily put us to death for fearing the instruments of torture.
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Why does such contentiousness excite us and such a fatal stubbornness please us, when we can live in peace if we obey the king?"
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But the youths, though about to be tortured, neither said any of these things nor even seriously considered them.
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For they were contemptuous of the emotions and sovereign over agonies,
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so that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counseling them to eat defiling food, all with one voice together, as from one mind, said:
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