4 Maccabees 12:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁴ Surely they by dying nobly fulfilled their service to God, but you will wail bitterly for having killed without cause the contestants for virtue.’ ¹⁵ Then because he too was about to die, he said, ¹⁶ ‘I do not desert the excellent example^[a] of my brothers,