Talált 11647 Eredmények: No
Eleazar, one of the scribes in high position, a man now advanced in age and of noble presence, was being forced to open his mouth to eat swine's flesh. (2 Maccabees 6, 18)
But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with pollution, went up to the the rack of his own accord, spitting out the flesh, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)
as men ought to go who have the courage to refuse things that it is not right to taste, even for the natural love of life. (2 Maccabees 6, 20)
"Such pretense is not worthy of our time of life," he said, "lest many of the young should suppose that Eleazar in his ninetieth year has gone over to an alien religion, (2 Maccabees 6, 24)
For even if for the present I should avoid the punishment of men, yet whether I live or die I shall not escape the hands of the Almighty. (2 Maccabees 6, 26)
Therefore, by manfully giving up my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
and leave to the young a noble example of how to die a good death willingly and nobly for the revered and holy laws." When he had said this, he went at once to the rack. (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
And those who a little before had acted toward him with good will now changed to ill will, because the words he had uttered were in their opinion sheer madness. (2 Maccabees 6, 29)
When he was about to die under the blows, he groaned aloud and said: "It is clear to the Lord in his holy knowledge that, though I might have been saved from death, I am enduring terrible sufferings in my body under this beating, but in my soul I am glad to suffer these things because I fear him." (2 Maccabees 6, 30)
So in this way he died, leaving in his death an example of nobility and a memorial of courage, not only to the young but to the great body of his nation. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
When he was utterly helpless, the king ordered them to take him to the fire, still breathing, and to fry him in a pan. The smoke from the pan spread widely, but the brothers and their mother encouraged one another to die nobly, saying, (2 Maccabees 7, 5)
He replied in the language of his fathers, and said to them, "No." Therefore he in turn underwent tortures as the first brother had done. (2 Maccabees 7, 8)
