Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 11:10
Source: Septuagint
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10to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion fashion.
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8Behold, now, being alien from God, thou makest war against those who are religious toward God.
9As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapult:
— 4 Maccabees 11:10 —
11With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
12A great favor thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.