2 Maccabees 13:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ From thence he commanded the sacrilegious wretch to be thrown down into the ashes, all men thrusting him forward unto death.

⁷ And by such a law it happened that Menelaus the transgressor of the law was put to death: not having so much as burial in the earth.

⁸ And indeed very justly, for insomuch as he had committed many sins against the altar of God, the fire and ashes of which were holy: he was condemned to die in ashes.