4 Maccabees 10:1-3
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The Torture of the Third and Fourth Brothers
10 When he, too, had endured a glorious death, the third was brought forward, and many repeatedly urged him to save himself by tasting the meat. 2 But he shouted, “Do you not know that the same father begot me as well as those who died and the same mother bore me and that I was brought up on the same teachings? 3 I do not renounce the noble kinship that binds me to my brothers.”[a]
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- 10.3 Other ancient authorities add 10.4, 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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