2 Maccabees 6:17

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

¹⁶And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.

— 2 Maccabees 6:17 —

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.

¹⁹But 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,