Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 11:21
Source: Septuagint
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21For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.
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19And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.
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.
— 4 Maccabees 11:21 —
22Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my brethren.
23I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.