Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 11:9
Source: Septuagint
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9As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapult:
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7hadst thou been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.
8Behold, now, being alien from God, thou makest war against those who are religious toward God.
— 4 Maccabees 11:9 —
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,