25 For isn’t your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction? (WEB)
4 Maccabees 11:25
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4 Maccabees 11:15–17
15 I was born and reared to the same end. We are bound to die also on behalf of the same cause. (WEB) 16 So if you think it is proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!” (WEB) 17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel. (WEB)
Job 18:2–4
2 “How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk. 3 Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight? 4 You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
4 Maccabees 7:24–25
24 This is why even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures; (WEB) 25 for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing, (WEB)
4 Maccabees 5:26–28
26 Those things which are suitable for our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are not, he has forbidden. (WEB) 27 But, tyrant-like, you not only force us to break the law, but also to eat, that you may ridicule us as we thus profanely eat. (WEB) 28 But you won’t have… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:32–34
32 But of the lusts, some belong to the soul and others to the body. Reasoning appears to rule over both. (WEB) 33 Otherwise, how is it that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would come from them? Isn’t it because reasoning is able to com… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 12:8–10
8 Nevertheless you even spared these as men, and you sent hornets as forerunners of your army, to cause them to perish little by little. (WEB) 9 Not that you were unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or by terrible beasts or by a stern… (WEB)
Mark 7:17–19
17 After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable. 18 “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him, 19 because it does not enter his heart, but it g…
4 Maccabees 5:6–8
6 “I would counsel you, old man, before your tortures begin, to taste the swine’s flesh, and save your life; for I feel respect for your age and hoary head, which since you have had so long, you appear to me to be no philosopher in retaining the superstition of… (WEB)
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