And if We had prescribed for them: Lay down your lives or go forth from your homes, they would not have done it except a few of them; and if they had done what they were admonished, it would have certainly been better for them and best in strengthening (them);
仮令われがかれらに「身命を棒げなさい。」，または，「家から出て行け。」と命じても，かれらの中少数の者の外は，そうしなかったであろう。もしかれらが，勧められるように行ったならば，きっとかれらのためにも善いことであり，もっと（信仰も）強まったのだが。