Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 9:26
Source: Septuagint
Original
26And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapult.
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24by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.
25And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life.
— 4 Maccabees 9:26 —
27And when, on inquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment,
28after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,