2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, (WEB) 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety until it sailed into the harbor of victory over death. (WEB) 4 No besieged city has ever held out against many and various war machines as that holy man did when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings and moved his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:2–4
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4 Maccabees 9:21–23
21 Although the framework of his bones was now destroyed, the high-minded and Abrahamic youth didn’t groan. (WEB) 22 But, as though transformed by fire into immortality, he nobly endured the rackings, saying, (WEB) 23 “Imitate me, O kindred. Never desert your station, nor renounce… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:31–32
31 For like Noah’s ship, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves, (WEB) 32 so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of emotions, and assaulted by violent storms which were the torments of your children, bo… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 12:13–15
13 Weren’t you ashamed, man as you are, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them? (WEB) 14 But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion toward God. (WEB) 15 But you will groan as you deserve for having sl… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 11:20–22
20 He, while tormented, said, “O good and holy contest, in which for the sake of religion, we kindred have been called to the arena of pain, and have not been conquered. (WEB) 21 For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered. (WEB) 22 Armed with upright virtue, I also will… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:29–31
29 Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in exchange for theirs.” (WEB) 30 Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law. (WEB) 31 Confessedly, therefore, religious… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:8–10
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4 Maccabees 16:12–14
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4 Maccabees 6:23–25
23 You spearbearers of the tyrant, why do you linger?” (WEB) 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 dow… (WEB)
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