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'You had better feel fear, my lads, and the justice you worship will pardon your unwilling transgression.'

And when the guards said to him, 'Consent to eat, that so you may be released from your tortures,' he said to them, 'Your method, O miserable minions, is not strong enough to lead captive my Reason. Cut off my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints; through all the torments I will show you that in behalf of virtue the sons of the Hebrews alone are unconquerable.'

And when the guards said to him, 'Consent to eat, that so you may be released from your tortures,' he said to them, 'Your method, O miserable minions, is not strong enough to lead captive my Reason. Cut off my limbs, and burn my flesh, and twist my joints; through all the torments I will show you that in behalf of virtue the sons of the Hebrews alone are unconquerable.'

You are not ignorant of the love of brethren, whereof the divine and all-wise Providence has given an inheritance to those who are begotten though their fathers, implanting it in them even through the mother's womb; wherein brethren do dwell the like period, and take their form during the same time, and are nourished from the same blood, and are quickened with the same soul, and are brought into the world after the same space, and they draw milk from the same founts, whereby their fraternal souls are nursed together in arms at the breast; and they are knit yet closer through a common nurture and daily companionship and other education, and through our discipline under the Law of God.

In vain for you, O my sons, did I endure the many pangs of labour, and the more difficult cares of your upbringing.

For it would be shameful if, while this aged man endured the agony for religion's sake, you that are young men shrank before the pain.

Who, while he was yet with us, taught you the Law and the prophets. He read to us of Abel who was slain by Cain, and of Isaac who was offered as a burnt-offering, and of Joseph in the prison.

And he spake to us of Phineas, the zealous priest, and he taught you the song of Ananias, Azarias, and Mishael in the fire.

For the right hand of the Lord is with you: and He is your helper:

And peace was prepared for you, before ever your war was.

Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have your hearts known what I am showing to you.

Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have your hearts known what I am showing to you.

Open your ears and I will speak to you. Give me your souls that I may also give you my soul,

Open your ears and I will speak to you. Give me your souls that I may also give you my soul,

For I announce to you peace, to you His saints;

For I announce to you peace, to you His saints;

And righteousness hath taken it and hath given it to you.

For their book is victory which is yours. And she (Victory) sees you before her and wills that you shall be saved. Hallelujah.

For their book is victory which is yours. And she (Victory) sees you before her and wills that you shall be saved. Hallelujah.

Fill ye waters for yourselves from the living fountain of the Lord, for it is opened to you:

Come forth, ye that have been afflicted and receive joy, and possess your souls by His grace; and take to you immortal life.

And forsake the ways of that corruption and draw near unto me, and I will enter into you, and will bring you forth from perdition,

And forsake the ways of that corruption and draw near unto me, and I will enter into you, and will bring you forth from perdition,

And make you wise in the ways of truth: that you be not destroyed nor perish:

And make you wise in the ways of truth: that you be not destroyed nor perish:

Hear ye me and be redeemed. For the grace of God I am telling among you: and by my means you shall be redeemed and become blessed.

Hear ye me and be redeemed. For the grace of God I am telling among you: and by my means you shall be redeemed and become blessed.

Put on, therefore, the name of the Most High, and know Him, and you shall cross without danger, for the rivers will be subject to you.

Put on, therefore, the name of the Most High, and know Him, and you shall cross without danger, for the rivers will be subject to you.