Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 8:10
Source: Septuagint
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10Will you not reason upon this—that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in tortures?
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8For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures.
9Have mercy, then, upon your own selves, whom I, although an enemy, compassionate for your age and comeliness.
— 4 Maccabees 8:10 —
11Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.
12And when the spearman brought forward the wheels, and the racks, and hooks, and catapults, and caldrons, pans, and finger racks, and iron hands, and wedges, and bellows, the tyrant continued: