Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 6:3
Source: Septuagint
Original
3Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes;
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1When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture.
2And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety.
— 4 Maccabees 6:3 —
4a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king.
5But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not at all.