Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 11:20
Source: Septuagint
Original
20And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brothers have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.
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18Extended upon which, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.
19And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.
— 4 Maccabees 11:20 —
21For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.
22Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my brethren.