Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 9:15
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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13And the noble youth, extended upon this, became dislocated.
14And with every member disjointed, he exclaimed in expostulation,
— 4 Maccabees 9:15 —
16And when the spearmen said, Consent to eat, that you may be released from your tortures—
17he answered, Not so powerful, O accursed ministers, is your wheel, as to stifle my reasoning; cut my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints.