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as men ought to do who have the courage to reject the food which it is unlawful to taste even for love of life. (2 Maccabees 6, 20)
But he made up his mind in a noble manner, worthy of his years, the dignity of his advanced age, the merited distinction of his gray hair, and of the admirable life he had lived from childhood; and so he declared that above all he would be loyal to the holy laws given by God. He told them to send him at once to the abode of the dead, explaining: (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
Should I thus dissimulate for the sake of a brief moment of life, they would be led astray by me, while I would bring shame and dishonor on my old age. (2 Maccabees 6, 25)
Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will prove myself worthy of my old age, (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
At the point of death he said: "You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever. It is for his laws that we are dying." (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
When he was near death, he said, "It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the God-given hope of being restored to life by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life." (2 Maccabees 7, 14)
"I do not know how you came into existence in my womb; it was not I who gave you the breath of life, nor was it I who set in order the elements of which each of you is composed. (2 Maccabees 7, 22)
Therefore, since it is the Creator of the universe who shapes each man's beginning, as he brings about the origin of everything, he, in his mercy, will give you back both breath and life, because you now disregard yourselves for the sake of his law." Martyrdom of Mother and Sons (2 Maccabees 7, 23)
When the youth paid no attention to him at all, the king appealed to the mother, urging her to advise her boy to save his life. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
My brothers, after enduring brief pain, have drunk of never-failing life, under God's covenant, but you, by the judgment of God, shall receive just punishments for your arrogance. (2 Maccabees 7, 36)
Like my brothers, I offer up my body and my life for our ancestral laws, imploring God to show mercy soon to our nation, and by afflictions and blows to make you confess that he alone is God. (2 Maccabees 7, 37)
keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage perpetrated by the Gentiles against the holy Place and the affliction of the humiliated city, as well as the subversion of their ancestral way of life. (2 Maccabees 8, 17)
