4 Maccabees 9:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ but you, because of your bloodthirstiness towards us, will deservedly undergo from the divine justice eternal torment by fire.’

The Torture of the First and Second Brothers

¹⁰ When they had said these things, the tyrant was not only indignant, as at those who are disobedient, but also infuriated, as at those who are ungrateful. ¹¹ Then at his command the guards brought forward the eldest, and having torn off his tunic, they bound his hands and arms with thongs on each side.