Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 9:17
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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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—
— 4 Maccabees 9:17 —
18For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered in behalf of virtue.
19While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more.