4 Maccabees 11:17-19

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¹⁷ When he had said this, they led him to the wheel. ¹⁸ He was carefully stretched tight upon it, his back was broken, and he was roasted from underneath. 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.