4 Maccabees 6:8-10

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⁸ One of the cruel guards rushed at him and began to kick him in the side to make him get up again after he fell. ⁹ But he bore the pains and scorned the punishment and endured the tortures. ¹⁰ Like a noble athlete the old man, while being beaten, was victorious over his torturers;