4 Maccabees 9:13-15

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¹³ When the noble youth was stretched out around this, his limbs were dislocated, ¹⁴ and with every member disjointed he denounced the tyrant, saying, ¹⁵ “Most abominable tyrant, enemy of heavenly justice, savage of mind, you are mangling me in this manner not because I am a murderer or as one who acts impiously but because I protect the divine law.”