1When he, too, thrown into the caldron, had died a blessed death, the seventh and youngest of all came forward.
2Even though the tyrant had been vehemently reproached by the brothers, he felt strong compassion for this child when he saw that he was already in fetters. He summoned him to come nearer and tried to persuade him, saying,
3“You see the result of your brothers’ stupidity, for they died in torments because of their disobedience.
4You, too, if you do not obey, will be miserably tortured and die before your time,
5 has laid up for you a more intense and eternal fire and tortures, and these throughout all time will never let you go.
13As a man, were you not ashamed, you most savage beast, to cut out the tongues of people who have feelings like yours and are made of the same elements as you and to maltreat and torture them in this way?
14Surely they by dying nobly fulfilled their pious duty to God, but you will wail bitterly for having killed without cause the contestants for virtue.”
15Then because he, too, was about to die, he said,
16“I do not desert the excellent example of my brothers,
17and I call on the God of our ancestors to be merciful to our nation,
18but on you he will take vengeance both in this present life and when you are dead.”
19After he had uttered these imprecations, he flung himself into the braziers and so ended his life.
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