4 Maccabees 11:20-22

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²⁰ While being tortured he said, “O contest befitting holiness, in which so many of us brothers have been summoned to an arena of sufferings for the sake of piety and in which we have not been defeated! ²¹ For pious knowledge, O tyrant, is invincible. ²² I also, equipped with nobility, will die with my brothers,