3 Maccabees 5:31-33

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³¹ “If your parents or children were present, I would have prepared them to be a rich feast for the savage animals instead of the Jews, who give me no ground for complaint and have exhibited to an extraordinary degree a full and firm loyalty to my ancestors. ³² In fact, you would have been deprived of life instead of these, were it not for the affection arising from our common upbringing and lifelong association.”^{(A) 33} So Hermon suffered an unexpected and dangerous threat, and his eyes wavered and his face fell.