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Even now, we ourselves shudder as we hear of the suffering of these young men; they not only saw what was happening, not only heard the direct word of threat, but also bore the sufferings patiently, and in agonies of fire at that.
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O most holy seven, brothers in harmony! For just as the seven days of creation move in choral dance around religion,
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so these youths, forming a chorus, encircled the sevenfold fear of tortures and dissolved it.
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Even now, we ourselves shudder as we hear of the suffering of these young men; they not only saw what was happening, not only heard the direct word of threat, but also bore the sufferings patiently, and in agonies of fire at that.
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What could be more excruciatingly painful than this? For the power of fire is intense and swift, and it consumed their bodies quickly.
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Do not consider it amazing that reason had full command over these men in their tortures, since the mind of woman despised even more diverse agonies,
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