4 Maccabees 12:9

9 Extremely pleased by the boy's declaration, they freed him at once.

4 Maccabees 12:9 In-Context

7 But when his mother had exhorted him in the Hebrew language, as we shall tell a little later,

8 he said, "Let me loose, let me speak to the king and to all his friends that are with him."

9 Extremely pleased by the boy's declaration, they freed him at once.

10 Running to the nearest of the braziers,

11 he said, "You profane tyrant, most impious of all the wicked, since you have received good things and also your kingdom from God, were you not ashamed to murder his servants and torture on the wheel those who practice religion?