Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 9:21
Source: Septuagint
Original
21And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed, the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan.
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19While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him upon the wheel still more.
20And the wheel was defiled all over with blood, and the hot ashes were quenched by the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh were scattered about the axles of the machine.
— 4 Maccabees 9:21 —
22But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying,
23Imitate me, O brethren, nor ever desert your station, nor abjure my brotherhood in courage: fight the holy and honorable fight of religion;