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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 6
In 2 translations
- WEB
- For it would be irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we would now turn back
- LXXE
- for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ γὰρ ἀλόγιστον, εἰ πρὸς ἀλήθειαν ζήσαντες τὸν μέχρι γήρως βίον, καὶ τὴν ἐπʼ αὐτῶν δόξαν νομίμως φυλάσσοντες, νῦν μεταβαλοίμεθα,