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2 Maccabees 6:17-19
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
2 Maccabees 6:17-19
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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.
19 But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life, went forward voluntarily to the torment.
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