4 Maccabees Chapter 11: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

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¹ When he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² “I don’t intend, O tyrant, to get excused from the torment which is on behalf of virtue. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ But I have come of my own accord, that by my death you may owe heavenly vengeance and punishment for more crimes. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ O you hater of virtue and of men, what have we done that you thus revel in our blood? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ Does it seem evil to you that we worship the Founder of all things, and live according to his surpassing law? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ But this is worthy of honors, not torments, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ if you had been capable of the higher feelings of men, and possessed the hope of salvation from God. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ Behold now, being alien from God, you make war against those who are religious toward God.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ As he said this, the spearbearers bound him and drew him to the rack, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

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. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ With his breath thus confined, and his body strangled, he said, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² “A great favor you bestow upon us, O tyrant, by enabling us to manifest our adherence to the law by means of nobler sufferings.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ He also being dead, the sixth, quite a youth, was brought out. On the tyrant asking him whether he would eat and be delivered, he said, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ “I am indeed younger than my brothers, but in understanding I am as old. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ I was born and reared to the same end. We are bound to die also on behalf of the same cause. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ So if you think it is proper to torment us for not eating the unclean, then torment!” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ As he said this, they brought him to the wheel. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ Extended upon this, with limbs racked and dislocated, he was gradually roasted from beneath. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ Having heated sharp spits, they stabbed them into his back; and having pierced his sides, they burned away his entrails. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ He, while tormented, said, “O good and holy contest, in which for the sake of religion, we kindred have been called to the arena of pain, and have not been conquered. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ For religious understanding, O tyrant, is unconquered. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² Armed with upright virtue, I also will depart with my kindred. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ I, too, bearing with me a great avenger, O inventor of tortures, and enemy of the truly pious. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ We six youths have destroyed your tyranny. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ For isn’t your inability to overrule our reasoning, and to compel us to eat the unclean, your destruction? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁶ Your fire is cold to us. Your racks are painless, and your violence harmless. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁷ For the guards not of a tyrant but of a divine law are our defenders. Through this we keep our reasoning unconquered.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)