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And having heated sharp spits, they approached them to his back; and having transfixed his sides, they burned away his entrails.
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And he, while tormented, said, O period good and holy, in which, for the sake of religion, we brethren have been called to the contest of pain, and have not been conquered.
21
For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered.
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Armed with upright virtue, I also shall depart with my brethren.
23
I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O deviser of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.