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Indeed, when evil-doers are not left for long to their own devices but incur swift retribution, it is a sign of great benevolence. (2 Maccabees 6, 13)
In the case of other nations, the Master waits patiently for them to attain the full measure of their sins before he punishes them, but with us he has decided to deal differently, (2 Maccabees 6, 14)
Let this be said simply by way of reminder; we must return to our story without more ado. (2 Maccabees 6, 17)
Eleazar, one of the foremost teachers of the Law, a man already advanced in years and of most noble appearance, had his mouth forced open, to make him eat a piece of pork. (2 Maccabees 6, 18)
But he, resolving to die with honour rather than to live disgraced, walked of his own accord to the torture of the wheel, (2 Maccabees 6, 19)
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)
But having taken a noble decision worthy of his years and the dignity of his great age and the well-earned distinction of his grey hairs, worthy too of his impeccable conduct from boyhood, and above all of the holy legislation established by God himself, he answered accordingly, telling them to send him at once to Hades. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
'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)
and, because I had played this part for the sake of a paltry brief spell of life, might themselves be led astray on my account; I should only bring defilement and disgrace on my old age. (2 Maccabees 6, 25)
Even though for the moment I avoid execution by man, I can never, living or dead, elude the grasp of the Almighty. (2 Maccabees 6, 26)
Therefore if I am man enough to quit this life here and now, I shall prove myself worthy of my old age, (2 Maccabees 6, 27)
and I shall have left the young a noble example of how to make a good death, eagerly and generously, for the venerable and holy laws.' So saying, he walked straight to the wheel, (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
