4 Maccabees 2:14
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
It alloweth not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserveth it from the destroyers, and collecteth their fallen ruins.
Greek · Brenton
μηδὲ δενδροτομῶν τὰ ἥμερα τῶν πολεμίων φυτὰ, τὰ δὲ τῶν ἐχθρῶν τοῖς ἀπολέσασιν διασώζων, καὶ τὰ πεπτωκότα συνεγείρων.