16 So if you think it is proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!” (WEB) 17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel. (WEB) 18 Extended upon this, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 11:16–18
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4 Maccabees 11:8–10
8 Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.” (WEB) 9 As he said this, the spearbearers bound him and drew him to the rack, (WEB) 10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins u… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 9:18–20
18 For through all my torments I will convince you that the children of the Hebrews are alone unconquered on behalf of virtue.” (WEB) 19 While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him on the wheel still more. (WEB) 20 The wheel was defiled all o… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 10:6–8
6 They dragged around his fingers, his arms, his legs, and his ankles. (WEB) 7 Not being able by any means to strangle him, they tore off his skin, together with the extreme tips of his fingers, and then dragged him to the wheel, (WEB) 8 around which his vertebral joints were lo… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:24–26
24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire. (WEB) 25 Then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burned him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils. (WEB) 26 He being at length burned down… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 8:10–12
10 Won’t you consider this: that if you disobey, there will be nothing left for you but to die in torture?” (WEB) 11 When he had said this, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward, that fear might prevail upon them to eat unclean meat. (WEB) 12 When the spearman… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 9:11–13
11 So, at his bidding, the torturers brought the oldest of them, and tearing through his tunic, bound his hands and arms on each side with straps. (WEB) 12 When they had labored hard without effect in scourging him, they hurled him on the wheel. (WEB) 13 The noble youth, extended u… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 6:18–20
18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well advanced in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh. (WEB) 19 But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with defilement, advanced of his own accord to th… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 5:2–4
2 commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste swine’s flesh and things offered to idols. (WEB) 3 Should any of them be unwilling to eat the accursed food, they were to be tortured on the wheel and so killed. (WEB) 4 When many had bee… (WEB)
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