2 Maccabees 6:28
“The gift of fortitude is given for enduring worldly tribulations. Whence it is said in the book of Maccabees that Eleazar, when he departed from life, leaving behind an example of fortitude for the young and the old, said: "Gladly for love of you do I suffer these things." He could have been freed if he had pretended…”
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:
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26For 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.
27Wherefore now, manfully changing this life, I will shew myself such an one as mine age requireth,
— 2 Maccabees 6:28 —
29They 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.
30But 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.