4 Maccabees 9:8-10

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⁸ For we, through this severe suffering and endurance, shall have the prizes of virtue and shall be with God, on whose account we suffer;^{(A) 9} but you, because of your bloodthirstiness toward us, will deservedly undergo from the divine justice eternal torment by fire.”

The Torture of the First and Second Brothers

¹⁰ When they had said these things, the tyrant was not only indignant, as at those who are disobedient, but also infuriated, as at those who are ungrateful.