4 Maccabees · World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
4 Maccabees 11 World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
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1 When he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leapt forward, and said,
1 When he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said,
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2 “I don’t intend, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is on behalf of virtue.
2 “I don’t intend, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is on behalf of virtue.
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3 But I have come of my own accord, that by my death you may owe heavenly vengeance and punishment for more crimes.
3 But I have come of my own accord, that by my death you may owe heavenly vengeance and punishment for more crimes.
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4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood?
4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood?
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5 Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?
5 Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?
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7 if you had been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.
7 if you had been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.
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8 Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious towards God.”
8 Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.”
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9 As he said this, the spearbearers bound him and drew him to the rack,
9 As he said this, the spearbearers bound him and drew him to the rack,
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10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.
10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.
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11 With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
11 With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said,
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12 “A great favour you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.”
12 “A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.”
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13 He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out. On the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
13 He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out. On the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said,
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14 “I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old.
14 “I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old.
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15 I was born and reared to the same end. We are bound to die also on behalf of the same cause.
15 I was born and reared to the same end. We are bound to die also on behalf of the same cause.
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16 So if you think it is proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!”
16 So if you think it is proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!”
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17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel.
17 As he said this, they brought him to the wheel.
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18 Extended upon this, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.
18 Extended upon this, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath.
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19 Having heated sharp spits, they stabbed them into his back; and having pierced his sides, they burnt away his entrails.
19 Having heated sharp spits, they stabbed them into his back; and having pierced his sides, they burned away his entrails.
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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.
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.
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21 For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.
21 For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.
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22 Armed with upright virtue, I also will depart with my kindred.
22 Armed with upright virtue, I also will depart with my kindred.
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23 I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O inventor of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.
23 I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O inventor of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.
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25 For isn’t your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction?
25 For isn’t your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction?
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26 Your fire is cold to us. Your racks are painless, and your violence harmless.
26 Your fire is cold to us. Your racks are painless, and your violence harmless.
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27 For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders. Through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.”
27 For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders. Through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.”
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