15. By the blessed death of my brethren, and the eternal punishment of the tyrant, and the glorious life of the pious, I will not repudiate the noble brotherhood.
16. Invent, O tyrant, tortures; that you may learn, even through them, that I am the brother of those tormented before.
17. When he had said this, the blood-thirsty, and murderous, and unhallowed Antiochus ordered his tongue to be cut out.