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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 8
In 2 translations
- WEB
- For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains.
- LXXE8:25
- Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by giving ear to the king?
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br8:25
- Πόθεν ἡμῖν ἡ τοσαύτη ἐντέηκεν φιλονεικία, καὶ ἡ θανατεφόρος ἀρέσκει καρτερία, παρὸν μετὰ ἀταραξίας χρὴ τῷ βασιλεῖ πεισθέντας;
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