8. Release me that I may speak to the king and all his friends.
9. And they, rejoicing exceedingly at the promise of the youth, quickly let him go.
10. And he, running up to the pans, said,
11. Impious tyrant, and most blasphemous man, were you not ashamed, having received prosperity and a kingdom from God, to kill His servants, and to rack the doers of godliness?
12. Wherefore the divine vengeance is reserving you for eternal fire and torments, which shall cling to you for all time.
13. Were you not ashamed, man as you are, yet most savage, to cut out the tongues of men of like feeling and origin, and having thus abused to torture them?
14. But they, bravely dying, fulfilled their religion towards God.
15. But you shall groan according to your deserts for having slain without cause the champions of virtue.
16. Wherefore, he continued, I myself, being about to die,
17. will not forsake my brethren.
18. And I call upon the God of my fathers to be merciful to my race.
19. But you, both living and dead, he will punish.
20. Thus having prayed, he hurled himself into the pans; and so expired.