2 Maccabees 6:28-30

Wycliffe Bible

²⁸ forsooth I shall leave strong ensample to young men, if I use perfectly honest death with ready will [or if I be perfectly set in honest death with ready inwit], and strongly for the worthiest and holiest laws. When these things were said, anon (or at once) he was drawn to (the) torment.

²⁹ Forsooth these that led him, and (that) a little before were milder, were turned into wrath, for the words said of (or by) him, which they deemed brought forth by pride of heart.

³⁰ But when he should be slain with wounds, he sorrowed inwardly, and said, Lord, that hast holy cunning (or knowing, or knowledge), openly thou knowest, that when I might be delivered from death, I (now) suffer hard sorrows of (or in) (my) body; forsooth by soul willfully (or willingly) I suffer these things, for thy dread.