Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 14:9
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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7O holy seven of harmonious brethren! for as the seven days of creation, about religion,
8so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments.
— 4 Maccabees 14:9 —
10And what could be more painful? for the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies.
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.