4 Maccabees 9:28
Source: Septuagint
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,
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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.
27And when, on inquiring whether he would eat before he was tortured, they heard his noble sentiment,
— 4 Maccabees 9:28 —
29How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant,
30Thinkest thou not, most cruel of all tyrants, that thou art now tortured more than I, finding thy overweening conception of tyranny conquered by our patience in behalf of our religion?