4 Maccabees 9:29-31

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²⁹ “How sweet is any kind of death for our ancestral piety!” ³⁰ To the tyrant he said, “Do you not think, you most savage tyrant, that you are being tortured more than I, as you see the arrogant design of your tyranny being defeated by our endurance for the sake of piety? ³¹ I lighten my pain by the joys that come from virtue,