4 Maccabees 6:14

¹²Wherefore, partly in pity for his old age,

¹³partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said,

— 4 Maccabees 6:14 —

¹⁵We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine’s flesh.

¹⁶And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,