40 for he thought by seizing him to inflict an injury on them. (WEB) 41 But when the troops were at the point of taking the tower, and were forcing the door of the court, and asked for fire to burn the doors, he, being surrounded on every side, fell upon his sword, (WEB) 42 choosing rather to die nobly than to fall into the hands of the wicked wretches, and suffer outrage unworthy of his own nobleness. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 14:40–42
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