4 Maccabees 18:21-23

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²¹ pierced the pupils of their eyes and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with various tortures. ²² For these crimes divine justice pursued and will pursue the accursed tyrant. ²³ But the sons of Abraham with their victorious mother are gathered together into the chorus of the fathers and have received pure and immortal souls from God,