Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 6:17
Source: Septuagint
Original
17Let not us who are children of Abraham be so evil advised as by giving way to make use of an unbecoming pretense;
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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,
— 4 Maccabees 6:17 —
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,
19and ourselves should become a pattern of impiety to the young, as being an example of pollution eating.