IV Maccabees 6:14-24

14 Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries?
15 We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine's flesh.
16 And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,
17 Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretence;
18 for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,
19 and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.
20 It would be disgraceful if we should live on some short time, and that scorned by all men for cowardice,
21 and be condemned by the tyrant for unmanliness, by not contending to the death for our divine law.
22 Wherefore do you, O children of Abraham, die nobly for your religion.
23 Ye spearbearers of the tyrant, why do ye linger?
24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery, and not changing at their pity, they led him to the fire:

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