4 Maccabees 9:14

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

¹³And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated.

— 4 Maccabees 9:14 —

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.

¹⁶And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures—