2 Maccabees 7:4
“How illustrious, moreover, how great were the proclamations of confession which they uttered, what great evidences of faith they provided! King Antiochus, hostile, indeed, in Antiochus the Antichrist was foreshadowed, sought to stain the glorious mouths of the martyrs, joined and invincible in the spirit of confession…”
4Which forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the tongue of him that spake first, and to cut off the utmost parts of his body, the rest of his brethren and his mother looking on.
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2But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.
3Then the king, being in a rage, commanded pans and caldrons to be made hot:
— 2 Maccabees 7:4 —
5Now when he was thus maimed in all his members, he commanded him being yet alive to be brought to the fire, and to be fried in the pan: and as the vapour of the pan was for a good space dispersed, they exhorted one another with the mother to die manfully, saying thus,
6The Lord God looketh upon us, and in truth hath comfort in us, as Moses in his song, which witnessed to their faces, declared, saying, And he shall be comforted in his servants.