3 Maccabees 2:29-31
Revised Standard Version
29 those who are registered are also to be branded on their bodies by fire with the ivy-leaf symbol of Diony′sus, and they shall also be reduced to their former limited status.” 30 In order that he might not appear to be an enemy to all, he inscribed below: “But if any of them prefer to join those who have been initiated into the mysteries, they shall have equal citizenship with the Alexandrians.”
31 Now some, however, with an obvious abhorrence of the price to be exacted for maintaining the religion of their city,[a] readily gave themselves up, since they expected to enhance their reputation by their future association with the king.
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- 3 Maccabees 2:31 The Greek text of this clause is uncertain
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