4 Maccabees 8:12
Source: Septuagint
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:
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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?
11Thus speaking, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that very fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat.
— 4 Maccabees 8:12 —
13Fear, young men, and the Righteousness which ye worship will be merciful to you if you err from compulsion.
14Now they having listened to these words of persuasion, and seeing the fearful instruments, not only were not afraid, but even answered the arguments of the tyrant, and through their good reasoning destroyed his power.