4 Maccabees 10:16-20

16 Contrive tortures, tyrant, so that you may learn from them that I am a brother to those who have just now been tortured."

17 When he heard this, the bloodthirsty, murderous, and utterly abominable Antiochus gave orders to cut out his tongue.

18 But he said, "Even if you remove my organ of speech, God hears also those who are mute.

19 See, here is my tongue; cut it off, for in spite of this you will not make our reason speechless.

20 Gladly, for the sake of God, we let our bodily members be mutilated.