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while those who were escorting him, recently so well disposed towards him, turned against him after this declaration, which they regarded as sheer madness. (2 Maccabees 6, 29)
He for his part, just before he died under the blows, gave a sigh and said, 'The Lord whose knowledge is holy sees clearly that, though I might have escaped death, from awe of him I gladly endure these agonies of body under the lash, and that in my soul I am glad to suffer.' (2 Maccabees 6, 30)
This was how he died, leaving his death as an example of nobility and a record of virtue not only for the young but for the greater part of the nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
It also happened that seven brothers were arrested with their mother. The king tried to force them to taste some pork, which the Law forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
One of them, acting as spokesman for the others, said, 'What are you trying to find out from us? We are prepared to die rather than break the laws of our ancestors.' (2 Maccabees 7, 2)
The king, in a fury, ordered pans and cauldrons to be heated over a fire. (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
When he had been rendered completely helpless, the king gave orders for him to be brought, still breathing, to the fire and fried alive in a pan. As the smoke from the pan drifted about, his mother and the rest encouraged one another to die nobly, with such words as these, (2 Maccabees 7, 5)
'The Lord God is watching and certainly feels sorry for us, as Moses declared in his song, which clearly states that "he will take pity on his servants." ' (2 Maccabees 7, 6)
When the first had left the world in this way, they brought the second forward to be tortured. After stripping the skin from his head, hair and all, they asked him, 'Will you eat some pork, before your body is tortured limb by limb?' (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
Replying in his ancestral tongue, he said, 'No!' So he too was put to the torture in his turn. (2 Maccabees 7, 8)
With his last breath he exclaimed, 'Cruel brute, you may discharge us from this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up, since we die for his laws, to live again for ever.' (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
After him, they tortured the third, who on being asked for his tongue promptly thrust it out and boldly held out his hands, (2 Maccabees 7, 10)
