4 Maccabees 11:24-26

Common English Bible

²⁴ The six of us boys have brought your tyranny to an end. ²⁵ You haven’t been able to make us change our minds or to force us to eat polluting food. Isn’t this a sign that your rule of tyranny is over? ²⁶ Your hot fires feel cold to us; your catapults are painless; your violence has no real power.