4 Maccabees 8:18-20

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¹⁸ why do we take pleasure in vain resolves and venture upon a disobedience that brings death? ¹⁹ O men and brothers, should we not fear the instruments of torture and consider the threats of torments and give up this vanity and this arrogance that threatens to destroy us? ²⁰ Let us take pity on our youth and have compassion on our mother’s age,