³⁴ quenched the fury of the flames,^(A) and escaped the edge of the sword;^(B) whose weakness was turned to strength;^(C) and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies.^{(D) 35} Women received back their dead, raised to life again.^(E) There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection. ³⁶ Some faced jeers and flogging,^(F) and even chains and imprisonment.^{(G) 37} They were put to death by stoning;^[a](H) they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword.^(I) They went about in sheepskins and goatskins,^(J) destitute, persecuted and mistreated— ³⁸ the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, living in caves^(K) and in holes in the ground.