2 Maccabees 6:16

¹⁴For 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,

¹⁵Lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he should take vengeance of us.

— 2 Maccabees 6:16 —

¹⁷But 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.

¹⁸Eleazar, 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.