15 Having received permission to speak, he began to address the people as follows: (WEB) 16 “We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law. (WEB) 17 Therefore we consider that we ought not to transgress the law in any way. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 5:15–17
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1 Esdras 8:93–95
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