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4 Maccabees 11:25-27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 11:25-27
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
25 Since you have not been able to persuade us to change our mind or to force us to eat defiling foods, is not this your downfall? 26 Your fire is cold to us, and the catapults painless, and your violence powerless. 27 For it is not the guards of the tyrant but those of the divine law that are set over us; therefore we hold fast to invincible reason.”
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