2 Maccabees 6:25-27

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁵ And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a corruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain and a curse upon my old age.

²⁶ For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the punishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty neither alive nor dead.

²⁷ Wherefore by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age: