4 Maccabees 6:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ After they had tied his arms on each side they flogged him, ⁴ while a herald who faced him cried out, ‘Obey the king’s commands!’ ⁵ But the courageous and noble man, like a true Eleazar, was unmoved, as though being tortured in a dream;