1And not long after this the king sent forth an old man of Jupiter Olympius, and to call the sanctuary in Jupiter the Protector of strangers, even as they were that dwelt in the place.
3But sore and utterly grievous was the visitation of this evil.
4dallied with harlots, and had to do with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not befitting;
5the place of sacrifice was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws.
6feast of when we be come unto the height of our sins.
16Wherefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us; but which he had reached with honour, and his excellent education from a child, or rather that became the holy laws of God's ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them quickly send him unto Hades.
24For it becometh not our years to dissemble, said he, that through this many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of fourscore years and ten, had gone over unto and thus I get to myself a pollution and a stain of mine old age.
26For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I leave behind And when they changed the good will they bare him a little before into ill will, because these words of his were, as they thought, stripes, he groaned aloud and said, To the Lord, that hath the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, Cp. Heb. 11.35.whereas I might have been delivered from death, I endure sore pains in my body Cp. Heb. 11.36.by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things for my fear of him.
31So this man also died after this manner, ver. 28. Heb. 11.39 & 12.1.leaving his death for an ensample of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation.
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