4 Maccabees 10:10

10 "We, most abominable tyrant, are suffering because of our godly training and virtue,

4 Maccabees 10:10 In-Context

8 They immediately brought him to the wheel, and while his vertebrae were being dislocated upon it he saw his own flesh torn all around and drops of blood flowing from his entrails.
9 When he was about to die, he said,
10 "We, most abominable tyrant, are suffering because of our godly training and virtue,
11 but you, because of your impiety and bloodthirstiness, will undergo unceasing torments."
12 When he also had died in a manner worthy of his brothers, they dragged in the fourth, saying,
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