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4 Maccabees 8:23-25
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 8:23-25
Revised Standard Version
23 Why do we banish ourselves from this most pleasant life and deprive ourselves of this delightful world? 24 Let us not struggle against compulsion[a] nor take hollow pride in being put to the rack. 25 Not even the law itself would arbitrarily slay us for fearing the instruments of torture.
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- 4 Maccabees 8:24 Or fate
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