Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 14:10
Source: Septuagint
Original
10And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies.
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8so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments.
9We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only beheld, and not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire.
— 4 Maccabees 14:10 —
11And think it not wonderful that reasoning bore rule over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains.
12For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children.