2 Maccabees 6:26

²⁴For 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;

²⁵And 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 Maccabees 6:26 —

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

²⁸And 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: