4 Maccabees 13:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ ‘Brothers, let us die like brothers for the sake of the law; let us imitate the three youths in Assyria who despised the same ordeal of the furnace. ¹⁰ Let us not be cowardly in the demonstration of our piety.’ ¹¹ While one said, ‘Courage, brother’, another said, ‘Bear up nobly’,