2 Maccabees 6:18
“Therefore Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes, a man advanced in age, etc. This Eleazar, whom the wickedness of Antiochus, a most cruel king, forced in his old age to eat pork, represents the Christian people, whom the savagery of Antichrist will attempt, before the end of the world, to turn to idolatry and to the fi…”
Source: Septuagint
18Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well-favored countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine’s flesh.
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16And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.
17But let this that we have spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.
— 2 Maccabees 6:18 —
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.
20As it behooved them to come, that are resolute to stand out against such things as are not lawful for love of life to be tasted.