4 Maccabees 8:6

⁴O youths, with favorable feelings, I admire the beauty of each of you; and greatly honoring so numerous a band of brethren, I not only counsel you not to share the madness of the old man who has been tortured before,

⁵but I do beg you to yield, and to enjoy my friendship; for I possess the power, not only of punishing those who disobey my commands, but of doing good to those who obey them.

— 4 Maccabees 8:6 —

⁷and, conforming to the Greek mode of life, alter your rule, and revel in youth’s delights.

⁸For if you provoke me by your disobedience, you will compel me to destroy you, every one, with terrible punishments by tortures.