4 Maccabees 7:4
Source: Septuagint
4Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.
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2and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,
3in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbor of victory over death.
— 4 Maccabees 7:4 —
5For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.
6O priest, worthy of the priesthood! thou didst not pollute thy sacred teeth; nor make thy appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.