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 7:25
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4 Maccabees 11:24–26
24 We six youths have destroyed your tyranny. (WEB) 25 For isn’t your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction? (WEB) 26 Your fire is cold to us. Your racks are painless, and your violence harmless. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 8:1–2
1 then, indeed, vehemently swayed with emotion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously. (WEB) 2 The tyrant having given this… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 6:18–20
18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well advanced in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh. (WEB) 19 But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with defilement, advanced of his own accord to th… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 9:15–17
15 “O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruel-hearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom you torture, but a defender of the Divine law.” (WEB) 16 And when the spearmen said, “Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures,” (WEB) 17 he… (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 8:27–28
27 For they were well aware of the sufferings, and masters of the pains. (WEB) 28 So that as soon as the tyrant had ceased counselling them to eat the unclean, they all with one voice, as from the same heart said: (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:1–3
1 If then, the seven kindred despised troubles even to death, it is admitted on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the emotions. (WEB) 2 For just as if they had eaten of the unholy as slaves to the emotions, we would have said that they had been… (WEB) 3 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 4:23–25
23 Having subdued them, he established a decree that if any of them lived according to the ancestral laws, he should die. (WEB) 24 When he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation, but saw all his threats and punishments without effe… (WEB)
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