4 Maccabees 6:16

¹⁴Why do you unreasonably destroy yourself, O Eleazar, with these miseries?

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

— 4 Maccabees 6:16 —

¹⁷Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretense;

¹⁸for it were irrational, if having lived up to old age in all truth, and having scrupulously guarded our character for it, we should now turn back,