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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 8
In 2 translations
- WEB
- Why has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?”
- LXXE8:23
- Let us not oppose necessity, nor seek vain-glory by our own excruciation.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br8:23
- Μὴ βιαζώμεθα τὴν ἀνάγκην, μηδὲ κενοδοξήσωμεν ἐπʼ τῇ ἑαυτῶν στρέβλῃ.
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