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2 Maccabees 6
2 Maccabees 6:18
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2 Maccabees 6:18
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Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man and of a well-favored countenance, was constrained to open his mouth and to eat swine's flesh.
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And therefore He never withdraweth His mercy from us; and though He punish with adversity, yet doth He never forsake His people.
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But let this that we have spoken be as a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.
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Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man and of a well-favored countenance, was constrained to open his mouth and to eat swine's flesh.
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But he, choosing rather to die gloriously than to live stained with such an abomination, spat it forth and came of his own accord to the torment,
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as it behooved those to come who are resolute to stand up against such things that are not lawful, for love of life, to be tasted.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.