“... In 17:19, Auctor supports this claim with a fitting quotation of Deuteronomy 33:3a from the Septuagint, ‘For Moses says, "All the sanctified (οἱ ἡγιασμένοι) are under your hands."’ According to Deuteronomy 33:3–4 from the Septuagint, God ‘spared’ his people, recalling Israel’s exodus deliverance from Egypt and consecration as Yahweh’s holy people (compare Exodus 19:6; Leviticus 11:45; Deuteronomy 7:6), who received ‘a law, which Moses commanded us, an inheritance for the congregations of Jacob.’ This fits precisely the depiction of the Jewish heroes as ‘athletes of the divine legislation’ (4 Maccabees 17:16), who die for their commitment to the Law (6:27, 30; 9:15). They are then ‘sanctified’ at their death and ‘honored,’ when they are delivered from the tyrant’s profanity and consecrated in God’s presence (17:19–20) ...”