4 Maccabees 11:5-9 World English Bible (WEB)

5. Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?

6. But this is worthy of honors, not torments;

7. had you been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.

8. Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.

9. As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt:

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