3 Maccabees 7:9
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
For know ye, that should we conceive any evil design against, or in any manner aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our opposite, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Fare ye well.
Greek · Brenton
Γινώσκετε γὰρ ὅτι κατὰ τούτων ἐάν τι κακοτεχνήσωμεν πονηρόν, ἢ ἐπιλυπήσωμεν αὐτοὺς τὸ σύνολον, οὐκ ἄνθρωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν πάσης δεσπόζοντα δυνάμεως Θεὸν ὕψιστον ἀντικείμενον ἡμῖν ἐπʼ ἐκδικήσει τῶν πραγμάτων κατὰ πᾶν ἀφεύκτως δια παντὸς ἕξομεν· ἔῤῥωσθε.