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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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in spirit through reason; and by reason like that of Isaac he rendered the many-headed rack ineffective.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.