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4 Maccabees 8:11-13
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 8:11-13
Revised Standard Version
11 Will you not consider this, that if you disobey, nothing remains for you but to die on the rack?”
12 When he had said these things, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward so as to persuade them out of fear to eat the defiling food. 13 And when the guards had placed before them wheels and joint-dislocators, rack and hooks[a] and catapults[b] and caldrons, braziers and thumbscrews and iron claws and wedges and bellows, the tyrant resumed speaking:
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- 4 Maccabees 8:13 Greek obscure
- 4 Maccabees 8:13 Here and elsewhere in 4 Macc. an instrument of torture
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