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IV Maccabees 6:10-20
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and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.
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His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired by the very torturers for his courage.
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Wherefore, partly in pity for his old age,
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partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said,
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Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries?
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We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine's flesh.
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And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,
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Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretence;
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for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
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and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.
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It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,
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