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4 Maccabees 9:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 9:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 And when the guards said, “Agree to eat so that you may be released from the tortures,”(A) 17 he replied, “You abominable lackeys, your wheel is not so powerful as to strangle my reason. Cut my limbs, burn my flesh, and twist my joints; 18 through all these tortures I will convince you that children of the Hebrews alone are invincible when virtue is at stake.”
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