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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.
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First they stripped the old man, who remained adorned with the gracefulness of his piety.
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And after they had tied his arms on each side they scourged him,
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while a herald opposite him cried out, "Obey the king's commands!"
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But the courageous and noble man, as a true Eleazar, was unmoved, as though being tortured in a dream;
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yet while the old man's eyes were raised to heaven, his flesh was being torn by scourges, his blood flowing, and his sides were being cut to pieces.
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And though he fell to the ground because his body could not endure the agonies, he kept his reason upright and unswerving.
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One of the cruel guards rushed at him and began to kick him in the side to make him get up again after he fell.
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But he bore the pains and scorned the punishment and endured the tortures.
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And like a noble athlete the old man, while being beaten, was victorious over his torturers;