4 Maccabees 6:3-5

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³ After they had tied his arms behind him, they flogged him from both sides, 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,^[a] was unmoved, as though being tortured in a dream,