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The Torture of the Third and Fourth Brothers

10 When he too had endured a glorious death, the third was led in, and many repeatedly urged him to save himself by tasting the meat. But he shouted, “Do you not know that the same father begot me and those who died, and the same mother bore me, and that I was brought up on the same teachings? I do not renounce the noble kinship that binds me to my brothers.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4 Maccabees 10:3 Some ancient authorities add verse 4: So if you have any instrument of torture, apply it to my body; for you cannot touch my soul, even if you wish.”

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