2 Maccabees 6:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity, he forsaketh them not.

¹⁷ But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers. And now we must come to the narration.

¹⁸ Eleazar one of the chief of the scribes, a man advanced in years, and of a comely countenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat swine's flesh.