4 Maccabees 6:16-18

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁶ But Eleazar, as though more bitterly tormented by this counsel, cried out: ¹⁷ ‘Never may we, the children of Abraham,^[a] 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 maintained in accordance with law the reputation of such a life, we should now change our course