4 Maccabees 8:25
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
Whence has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by giving ear to the king?
Greek · Brenton
Πόθεν ἡμῖν ἡ τοσαύτη ἐντέηκεν φιλονεικία, καὶ ἡ θανατεφόρος ἀρέσκει καρτερία, παρὸν μετὰ ἀταραξίας χρὴ τῷ βασιλεῖ πεισθέντας;