4 Maccabees 9:13

¹¹So that, at his bidding, the torturers brought forth the eldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with thongs.

¹²And when they had labored hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him upon the wheel.

— 4 Maccabees 9:13 —

¹⁴And with every member disjointed, he exclaimed in expostulation,

¹⁵O most accursed tyrant, and enemy of heavenly justice, and cruelhearted, I am no murderer, nor sacrilegious man, whom thou thus ill-usest; but a defender of the Divine law.