2 Maccabees 6:25-27

Wycliffe Bible

²⁵ and that they be deceived by my feigning, and that for (a) little time of corruptible life, and that by this I get spot and execration, or cursedness, to mine eld (age).

²⁶ For why though in present time I be delivered from (the) torments of men, but neither quick (or alive), neither dead, I shall (not) escape the hand of [the] Almighty.

²⁷ Wherefore in passing the life strongly, that is, in dying for the law of God, soothly I shall appear worthy of (my) age;