OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 6:20

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as men ought to come who are resolute to repel such things as not even for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste.

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Verse 20. Life. He would not eat swine’s flesh to save it. Greek “But spitting it out, (as those ought to come forward who expect to be tortured; or avenged. αμυνεσθαι) of which things it is not lawful to taste through love of life.” Bible.

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