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 slain without cause the champions of virtue. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 12:13–15
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4 Maccabees 9:8–10
8 For we through this ill-treatment and endurance will gain the rewards of virtue. (WEB) 9 But you, for the wicked and despotic slaughter of us, will, from the Divine vengeance, endure eternal torture by fire.” (WEB) 10 When they had said this, the tyrant was not only exasperated… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 10:10–12
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4 Maccabees 9:31–32
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4 Maccabees 6:20–22
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4 Maccabees 11:3–5
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4 Maccabees 15:18–20
18 Your firstborn, expiring, didn’t turn you, nor the second, looking miserable in his torments, nor the third, breathing out his soul. (WEB) 19 You didn’t weep when you saw each of their eyes looking sternly at their tortures, and their nostrils foreboding death! (WEB) 20 When you… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 12:3–5
3 seeing him already encompassed with chains, had him brought nearer, and endeavored to counsel him, saying, (WEB) 4 “You see the end of the madness of your kindred, for they have died in torture through disobedience. You, if disobedient, having been miserably tormented… (WEB)
2 Baruch 54:13–15
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