4 Maccabees 6:3

3 After they had tied his arms on each side they flogged him,

4 Maccabees 6:3 In-Context

1 When Eleazar in this manner had made eloquent response to the exhortations of the tyrant, the guards who were standing by dragged him violently to the instruments of torture.

2 First they stripped the old man, though he remained adorned with the gracefulness of his piety.

3 After they had tied his arms on each side they flogged him,

4 while a herald who faced him cried out, "Obey the king's commands!"

5 But the courageous and noble man, like a true Eleazar, was unmoved, as though being tortured in a dream;