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You, father, strengthened our loyalty to the law through your glorious endurance, and you did not abandon the holiness that you praised, but by your deeds you made your words of divine philosophy credible.
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O aged man, more powerful than tortures; O elder, fiercer than fire; O supreme king over the passions, Eleazar!
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For just as our father Aaron, armed with the censer, ran through the multitude of the people and conquered the fiery angel,
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so the descendant of Aaron, Eleazar, though being consumed by the fire, remained unmoved in his reason.
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Most amazing, indeed, though he was an old man, his body no longer tense and firm, his muscles flabby, his sinews feeble, he became young again
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