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2 Maccabees 6:18-20
Revised Standard Version
2 Maccabees 6:18-20
Revised Standard Version
The Martyrdom of Eleazar
18 Elea′zar, 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. 19 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, 20 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.
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