21 and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.
22 Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.
23 You⌃ spearbearers of the tyrant, why do you⌃ linger?
24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:
25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burned him on the fire, and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils.
26 And he being at length burned down to the bones, and about to expire, raised his eyes Godward, and said,
27 You know, O God, that when I might have been saved, I am slain for the sake of the law by tortures of fire.