for
the old friendship with them find favour.

2 Mac 6:23
But he began to consider discreetly, and as became his age,
and the excellency of his ancient years, and the honour of his
gray head, whereon was come, and his most honest education from
a child, or rather the holy law made and given by God: therefore
he answered accordingly, and willed them straightways to send
him to the grave.

2 Mac 6:24
For it becometh not our age, said he, in any wise to
dissemble, whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar,
being fourscore years old and ten, were now gone to a strange
religion;

2 Mac 6:25
And so they through mine hypocrisy, and desire to live a
little time and a moment longer, should be deceived by me, and I
get a stain to mine old age, and make it abominable.

2 Mac 6:26
For though for the present time I should be delivered from
the punishment of men: yet should I not escape the hand of the
Almighty, neither alive, nor dead.

2 Mac 6:27
Wherefore now, manfully changing this life, I will shew
myself such an one as mine age requireth,

2 Mac 6:28
And leave a notable example to such as be young to die
willingly and courageously for the honourable and holy laws. And
when he had said these words, immediately he went to the
torment:

2 Mac 6:29
They that led him changing the good will they bare him a
little before into hatred, because the foresaid speeches
proceeded, as they thought, from a desperate mind.

2 Mac 6:30
But when he was ready to die with stripes, he groaned, and
said, It is manifest unto the Lord, that hath the holy
knowledge, that whereas I might have been delivered from death,
I now endure sore pains in body by being beaten: but in soul am
well content to suffer these things, because I fear him.

2 Mac 6:31
And thus this man died, leaving his death for an example of a
noble courage, and a memorial of virtue, not only unto young
men, but unto all his nation.

2 Mac 7:1
It came to pass also, that seven brethren with their mother
were taken, and compelled by the king against the law to taste
swine's flesh, and were tormented with scourges and whips.

2 Mac 7:2
But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest
thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to
transgress the laws of our fathers.

2 Mac 7:3
Then the king, being in a rage, commanded pans and caldrons
to be made hot:

2 Mac 7:4
Which forthwith being heated, he commanded to cut out the
tongue