Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 6:15
Source: Septuagint
Original
15We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and do you save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine’s flesh.
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13partly from the sympathy of acquaintance, and partly in admiration of his endurance, some of the attendants of the king said,
14Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries?
— 4 Maccabees 6:15 —
16And Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out,
17Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretense;