14 And he used to put you in mind of the scripture of Esaias, which says, Even if you pass through the fire, it shall not burn you.
15 He chanted to you David, the hymn-writer, who says, Many are the afflictions of the just.
16 He declared the proverbs of Solomon, who says, He is a tree of life to all those who do His will.
17 He used to verify Ezekiel, who said, Shall these dry bones live?
18 For he did not forget the song which Moses taught, proclaiming, I will kill, and I will make to live.
19 This is our life, and the length of our days.
20 O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments!