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4 Maccabees 10
4 Maccabees 10:16-21
4 Maccabees 10
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4 Maccabees 10:16-21
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16
Contrive tortures, tyrant, so that you may learn from them that I am a brother to those who have just been tortured."
17
When he heard this, the bloodthirsty, murderous, and utterly abominable Antiochus gave orders to cut out his tongue.
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But he said, "Even if you remove my organ of speech, God hears also those who are mute.
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See, here is my tongue; cut it off, for in spite of this you will not make our reason speechless.
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Gladly, for the sake of God, we let our bodily members be mutilated.
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God will visit you swiftly, for you are cutting out a tongue that has been melodious with divine hymns."
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.