4 Maccabees 9:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹³ When the noble youth was stretched out around this, his limbs were dislocated, ¹⁴ and with every member disjointed he denounced the tyrant, saying, ¹⁵ ‘Most abominable tyrant, enemy of heavenly justice, savage of mind, you are mangling me in this manner, not because I am a murderer, or as one who acts impiously, but because I protect the divine law.’