17
For it were disgraceful that this old man should endure pains for the sake of righteousness, and that you who are younger should be afraid of the tortures.
18
Remember that through God ye obtained existence, and have enjoyed it.
19
And on this second account ye ought to bear every affliction because of God.
20
For whom also our father Abraham was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him.
21
And the righteous Daniel was cast unto the lions; and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, were slung out into a furnace of fire; yet they endured through God.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.