22 For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation. The Divine Providence saved Israel, which was afflicted before, by the blood of those pious ones and the death that appeased wrath. (WEB) 23 For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their courageous virtue and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers. (WEB) 24 They proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 17:22–24
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