4 Maccabees 7:8
Source: Septuagint
8Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even unto death.
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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!
— 4 Maccabees 7:8 —
9Thou, father, hast gloriously established our right government by thy endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by thy deeds, hast made credible the words of philosophy.
10O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!