4 Maccabees 5:16
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
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;
Greek · Brenton
ἡμεῖς, Αντίοχε, θείῳ πεπεισμένοι νόμῳ πολιτευεσθαι, οὐδεμίαν ἀνάγκην βιαιοτέραν εἶναι νομίζομεν τῆς πρὸς τὸν νόμον ἡμῶν εὐπειθείας.