Given by: one of seven brothers, speaking for all, before the king who commanded them to break God's law. Given to: the reader, as a model of settled resolve.

Antiochus sought to force apostasy by torture; the brothers, schooled in the law received from their fathers, had settled their loyalty in advance and would not transgress it even to save their lives.

What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die rather than to transgress the laws of God, received from our fathers.

The brothers declared they were ready to die rather than break the laws of God handed down to them.

2 Maccabees 7:2

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour