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4 Maccabees 11:19-21
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 11:19-21
Revised Standard Version
19 To his back they applied sharp spits that had been heated in the fire, and pierced his ribs so that his entrails were burned through. 20 While being tortured he said, “O contest befitting holiness, in which so many of us brothers have been summoned to an arena of sufferings for religion, and in which we have not been defeated! 21 For the religious knowledge, O tyrant, is invincible.
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