4 Maccabees 10:1

1 When he too had endured a glorious death, the third was led in, and many repeatedly urged him to save himself by tasting the meat.

4 Maccabees 10:1 In-Context

1 When he too had endured a glorious death, the third was led in, 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."
5 Enraged by the man's boldness, they disjointed his hands and feet with their instruments, dismembering him by prying his limbs from their sockets,
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