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The people supervising the ritual meal, forbidden by the Law, because of the length of time for which they had known him, took him aside and privately urged him to have meat brought of a kind he could properly use, prepared by himself, and only pretend to eat the portions of sacrificial meat as prescribed by the king; (2 Maccabees 6, 21)
'Pretence', he said, 'does not befit our time of life; many young people would suppose that Eleazar at the age of ninety had conformed to the foreigners' way of life (2 Maccabees 6, 24)
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)
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)
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)
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)
courageously saying, 'Heaven gave me these limbs; for the sake of his laws I have no concern for them; from him I hope to receive them again.' (2 Maccabees 7, 11)
