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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 8
In 2 translations
- WEB
- “Fear, young men, and the righteousness which you worship will be merciful to you if you transgress because of compulsion.”
- LXXE8:11
- Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br8:11
- Ταῦτα δὲ λέγων, ἐκέλευσεν εἰς τὸ ἔμπροσθεν προτεθῆναι τὰ βασανιστήρια, ὅπως καὶ διὰ τοῦ φόβου πείσειεν αὐτοὺς μιεροφαγῆσαι.
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