4 Maccabees 11:24

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.

— 4 Maccabees 11:24 —

²⁵For is not your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, thy destruction?

²⁶Your fire is cold to us, your catapults are painless, and your violence harmless.