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When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture.
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And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety.
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Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes;
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a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king.
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But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all.
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But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man's flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.
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And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending.
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then one of the harsh spearbearers leaped upon his belly as he was falling, to force him upright.
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But he endured the pains, and despised the cruelty, and persevered through the indignities;
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and like a noble athlete, the old man, when struck, vanquished his torturers.
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His countenance sweating, and he panting for breath, he was admired by the very torturers for his courage.