2 Maccabees 6:27-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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

²⁸ And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith carried to execution.

²⁹ And they that led him, and had been a little before more mild, were changed to wrath for the words he had spoken, which they thought were uttered out of arrogancy.