No! let us rather choose, Armed with Hell-flames and fury, all at once O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer; when, to meet the noise Of his almighty engine, he shall hear Infernal thunder, and, for lightning, see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels, and his throne itself Mixed with Tartarean sulfur and strange fire, His own invented torments. -- Moloch, arguing to use the Abrahamic God's own torture devices against him, and granting him the epithet of "The Torturer" in Book II of Milton's Paradise Lost.