1
The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,
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and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,
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in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbour of victory over death.
4
Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.
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For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.