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.