4 Maccabees 6:16

¹⁶ Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out, (WEB)

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4 Maccabees 6:4–6

⁴ A herald opposite cried out, “Obey the commands of the king!” (WEB) ⁵ But the high-minded and truly noble Eleazar, as one tortured in a dream, ignored it. (WEB) ⁶ But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood stream… (WEB)

4 Maccabees 7:4–6

⁴ No besieged city has ever held out against many and various war machines as that holy man did when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings and moved his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him. (WEB) ⁵ For father Elea… (WEB)

4 Maccabees 6:1–2

¹ When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely dragged Eleazar to the instruments of torture. (WEB) ² First, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the beauty of piety. (WEB)

4 Maccabees 7:11–13

¹¹ For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel, (WEB) ¹² so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, didn’t give up his reasoning. (WEB) ¹³ What is most wonderful is that though he was an old… (WEB)

4 Maccabees 8:1–2

¹ then, indeed, vehemently swayed with emotion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let them go when they had eaten; but if they objected, to torment them more grievously. (WEB) ² The tyrant having given this… (WEB)

Judith 14:15–17

¹⁵ But when no one answered, he opened it, went into the bedchamber, and found him cast upon the threshold dead; and his head had been taken from him. (WEB) ¹⁶ He cried with a loud voice, with weeping, groaning, and shouting, and tore his garments. (WEB) ¹⁷ He entered into the tent… (WEB)

4 Maccabees 16:14–16

¹⁴ O woman, soldier of God for religion, you, aged and a female, have conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and even though weak, have been found more powerful in deeds and words. (WEB) ¹⁵ For when you were seized along with your children, you stood looking at Eleaza… (WEB)

4 Maccabees 5:13–15

¹³ For bear in mind that if there is any power which watches over this religion of yours, it will pardon you for all transgressions of the law which you commit through compulsion.” (WEB) ¹⁴ While the tyrant incited him in this manner to the unlawful eating of meat, Eleaza… (WEB)

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