4 Maccabees 6:16-18

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¹⁶ But Eleazar, as though more bitterly tormented by this counsel, cried out, ¹⁷ “Never may we, the children of Abraham, think so basely that out of cowardice we feign a role unbecoming to us! ¹⁸ For it would be irrational if, having lived in accordance with truth up to old age and having guarded the reputation of a life lived lawfully, we should now change our course