4 Maccabees 9:19-2539%
World English Bible · Judaism and Christianity
While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him on the wheel still more. The wheel was defiled all over with blood. The hot ashes were quenched by the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh were scattered about the axles of the machine. Although the framework of his bones was now destroyed, the high-minded and Abrahamic youth didn’t groan. But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying, “Imitate me, O kindred. Never desert your station, nor renounce my brotherhood in courage. Fight the holy and honorable fight of religion, by which means our just and paternal Providence, becoming merciful to the nation, will punish the pestilent tyrant.” Saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life.
Tr. World English Bible, 2000Open ›