4 Maccabees 7:13

13 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

4 Maccabees 7:13 In-Context

11 For just as our father Aaron, armed with the censer, ran through the multitude of the people and conquered the fiery angel,

12 so the descendant of Aaron, Eleazar, though being consumed by the fire, remained unmoved in his reason.

13 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

14 in spirit through reason; and by reason like that of Isaac he rendered the many-headed rack ineffective.

15 O man of blessed age and of venerable gray hair and of law-abiding life, whom the faithful seal of death has perfected!

Footnotes

• [a] Gk [the tautness of the body already loosed]