Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 11:12
Source: Septuagint
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12A great favor thou bestowest upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.
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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.
11With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
— 4 Maccabees 11:12 —
13He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out; and on the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
14I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old;