1 Maccabees 2:19-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ Then Mathathias answered, and said with a loud voice: Although all nations obey king Antiochus, so as to depart every man from the service of the law of his fathers, and consent to his commandments:

²⁰ I and my sons, and my brethren will obey the law of our fathers.

²¹ God be merciful unto us: it is not profitable for us to forsake the law, and the justices of God:

²² We will not hearken to the words of king Antiochus, neither will we sacrifice, and transgress the commandments of our law, to go another way.