2 Maccabees 14:42
“Chusing rather to die manfully, then to come into the hands of the wicked to be abused otherwise then beseemed his noble birth.”
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2 Maccabees 14:42 Context
40For he thought by taking him to do [the Iewes] much hurt. 41Now when the multitude would haue taken the towre, and violently broken into the vtter doore, and bade that fire should be brought to burne it, he being ready to be taken on euery side, fell vpon his sword, 42Chusing rather to die manfully, then to come into the hands of the wicked to be abused otherwise then beseemed his noble birth. 43But missing his stroke through haste, the multitude also rushing within the doores, he ran boldly vp to the wall, and cast himselfe downe manfully among the thickest of them. 44But they quickly giuing backe, and a space being made, he fell downe into the midst of the void place.
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