Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 18:21
Source: Septuagint
Original
21He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures.
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19This is our life, and the length of our days.
20O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapult, and to all his torments!
— 4 Maccabees 18:21 —
22Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.
23But the children of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are assembled together to the choir of their fathers; having received pure and immortal souls from God.