4 Maccabees 12:7-9

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⁷ But after his mother had exhorted him in the Hebrew language, as we shall tell a little later,^{(A) 8} he said, “Let me loose, let me speak to the king and to all his Friends who are with him.”^{(B) 9} Extremely pleased by the boy’s declaration, they freed him at once.