1
When Eleazar in this manner had made eloquent response to the exhortations of the tyrant, the guards who were standing by dragged him violently to the instruments of torture.
2
First they stripped the old man, though he remained adorned with the gracefulness of his piety.
3
After they had tied his arms on each side they flogged him,
4
while a herald who faced him cried out, "Obey the king's commands!"
5
But the courageous and noble man, like a true Eleazar, was unmoved, as though being tortured in a dream;