4 Maccabees 7:5

³in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbor of victory over death.

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.

— 4 Maccabees 7:5 —

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.

⁷O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!