4 O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood?
5 Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law?
6 But this is worthy of honors, not torments;
7 had you been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God.
8 Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.
9 As he said this, the spearbearers bound him, and drew him to the catapelt:
10 to which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins upon the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered, scorpion-fashion.