ggestion of Ptolemee, against the Jews,
that they should observe the same fashions, and be partakers of
their sacrifices:

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And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the
Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the
present misery.

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For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their
children; whom when they had openly led round about the city,
the babes handing at their breasts, they cast them down headlong
from the wall.

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And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep
the sabbath day secretly, being discovered by Philip, were all
burnt together, because they made a conscience to help
themselves for the honour of the most sacred day.

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Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not
discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those
punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of
our nation.

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For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers
are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished.

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For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently
forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their
sins, so dealeth he with us,

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Lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he
should take vengeance of us.

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And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and
though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his
people.

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But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And
now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.

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Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a
well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth,
and to eat swine's flesh.

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But he, choosing rather to die gloriously, than to live
stained with such an abomination, spit it forth, and came of his
own accord to the torment,

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As it behoved them to come, that are resolute to stand out
against such things, as are not lawful for love of life to be
tasted.

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But they that had the charge of that wicked feast, for the
old acquaintance they had with the man, taking him aside,
besought him to bring flesh of his own provision, such as was
lawful for him to use, and make as if he did eat of the flesh
taken from the sacrifice commanded by the king;

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That in so doing he might be delivered from death, and