4 Maccabees 9:1
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“What are you waiting for, tyrant? We are ready to die rather than sin against the commandments handed down by our ancestors!
‘Why do you delay, O tyrant? For we are ready to die rather than transgress our ancestral commandments;
“Why do you delay, O tyrant? For we are ready to die rather than transgress our ancestral commandments;
“Why do you delay, O tyrant? For we are ready to die rather than transgress our ancestral commandments;
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