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In his death, he left a noble example and a memorial of virtue and strength, not only to the young but to the whole nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
It happened also that seven brothers were arrested with their mother. The king had them scourged and flogged to force them to eat the flesh of a pig which was prohibited by the Law. (2 Maccabees 7, 1)
The king became furious and ordered that pans and caldrons be heated over a fire. (2 Maccabees 7, 3)
When he had been thoroughly mutilated, the king ordered that while still breathing, he be brought to the fire and roasted alive. While the smoke from the pan spread widely, the other brothers and their mother encouraged one another to die bravely. And they said, (2 Maccabees 7, 5)
When the first had left the world in this way, they brought the second for execution. After stripping the skin with the hair from his head, they asked him: "Which do you prefer: to eat the flesh of a pig or to be tortured limb by limb?" (2 Maccabees 7, 7)
He answered them in the language of his ancestors, "I will not eat." And so he, too, was tortured. (2 Maccabees 7, 8)
At the moment of his last breath, he said, "Murderer, you now dismiss us from life, but the King of the world will raise us up. He will give us eternal life since we die for his laws." (2 Maccabees 7, 9)
At the point of death, he cried out, "I would rather die at the hands of men, and wait for the promises of God who will raise us up; you, however, shall have no part in the resurrection of life." (2 Maccabees 7, 14)
Wait, and you shall see his great power when he torments you and your descendants." (2 Maccabees 7, 17)
After this, they took the sixth who, at the point of death, said, "Don't be mistaken. We suffer all this because of ourselves for we have sinned against our own God; so these astonishing things have come upon us. (2 Maccabees 7, 18)
"I wonder how you were born of me; it was not I who gave you breath and life, nor I who ordered the matter of your body. (2 Maccabees 7, 22)
The Creator of the world who formed man in the beginning and ordered the unfolding of all creation shall in his mercy, give you back breath and life, since you now despise them for love of his laws." (2 Maccabees 7, 23)
