4 Maccabees 11:24-26

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁴ We six boys have paralysed your tyranny. ²⁵ Since you have not been able to persuade us to change our mind or to force us to eat defiling foods, is not this your downfall? ²⁶ Your fire is cold to us, and the catapults painless, and your violence powerless.