4 Maccabees 10

Greek original · 21 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

📖 This chapter exists in 1 other originals — side by side (Apocrypha)

10:1

καὶ τούτου τὸν ἀοίδιμον θάνατον καρτερήσαντος ὁ τρίτος ἤγετο παρακαλούμενος πολλὰ ὑπὸ πολλῶν ὅπως ἀπογευσάμενος σῴζοιτο

Now this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life.

這人堅忍地受了這可歌可頌的死，第三個就被帶上來，許多人多方勸他嘗一嘗以保全性命。

10:2

ὁ δὲ ἀναβοήσας ἔφη ἀγνοεῖτε ὅτι αὑτός με τοῖς ἀποθανοῦσιν ἔσπειρεν πατήρ καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ μήτηρ ἐγέννησεν καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀνετράφην δόγμασιν

But he cried out and said, Know you⌃ not, that the father of those who are dead, became the father of me also; and that the same mother bare me; and that I was brought up in the same tenets?

他卻高聲說：「你們豈不知道，生我的，正是生那些已死之人的同一位父親，生我的也是同一位母親，我也是在同樣的信念中養育長大的？

10:3

οὐκ ἐξόμνυμαι τὴν εὐγενῆ τῆς ἀδελφότητος συγγένειαν

I abjure not the noble relationship of my kindred.

我絕不否認我弟兄這高尚的血親情誼。

10:4

πρὸς ταῦτα εἴ τι ἔχετε κολαστήριον προσαγάγετε τῷ σώματί μου· τῆς γὰρ ψυχῆς μου, οὐδ’ ἂν θέλητε ἅψασθαι, δύνασθε.

Now then, whatever instrument of vengeance you⌃ have, apply it to my body, for you⌃ are not able to touch, even if you⌃ wish it, my soul.

如今，你們手中無論有甚麼刑具，儘管施在我身上吧；因為你們縱然願意，也碰不著我的魂。」

10:5

οἱ δὲ πικρῶς ἐνέγκαντες τὴν παρρησίαν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀρθρεμβόλοις ὀργάνοις τὰς χεῖρας αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς πόδας ἐξήρθρουν καὶ ἐξ ἁρμῶν ἀναμοχλεύοντες ἐξεμέλιζον

But they, highly incensed at his boldness of speech, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines, and wrenching them from their sockets, dismembered him.

他們因這人言語的坦率而大為惱怒，就用肢解的器械把他的手腳脫臼，從關節處撬扯，將他肢解。

10:6

τοὺς δακτύλους καὶ τοὺς βραχίονας καὶ τὰ σκέλη καὶ τοὺς ἀγκῶνας περιέκλων

And they dragged round his fingers, and his arms, and his legs, and his ankles.

他們扭斷他的手指、臂膀、腿和肘。

10:7

καὶ κατὰ μηδένα τρόπον ἰσχύοντες αὐτὸν ἄγξαι περιλύσαντες τὰ ὄργανα σὺν ἄκραις ταῖς τῶν δακτύλων κορυφαῖς ἀπεσκύθιζον

And not being able by any means to strangle him, they tore off his skin, together with the extreme tips of his fingers, flayed him, and then haled him to the wheel;

當他們無論如何也無法把他扼死時，就鬆開器械，連同他指尖的部分一起剝下他的皮。

10:8

καὶ εὐθέως ἦγον ἐπὶ τὸν τροχόν περὶ ὃν ἐκ σπονδύλων ἐκμελιζόμενος ἑώρα τὰς ἑαυτοῦ σάρκας περιλακιζομένας καὶ κατὰ σπλάγχνων σταγόνας αἵματος ἀπορρεούσας

around which his vertebral joints were loosened, and he saw his own flesh torn to shreds, and streams of blood flowing from his entrails.

他們隨即把他帶到刑輪上，他的脊椎節節脫臼，眼看著自己的肉被撕成碎片，血從臟腑中一滴滴流下。

10:9

μέλλων δὲ ἀποθνῄσκειν ἔφη

And when about to die, he said,

他將要死的時候，說：