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4 Maccabees 9:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 9:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Tyrant and counselor of lawlessness, in your hatred for us do not pity us more than we pity ourselves.[a] 4 For we consider this pity of yours, which ensures our safety through transgression of the law, to be more grievous than death itself. 5 You are trying to terrify us by threatening us with death by torture, as though a short time ago you learned nothing from Eleazar.(A)
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- 9.3 Meaning of Gk uncertain
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