4 Maccabees 9:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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.’ ¹⁶ And when the guards said, ‘Agree to eat so that you may be released from the tortures’,