1And it came to pass that seven brethren also with their mother were at the king's command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of maimed, the king commanded to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the vapour of the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying thus:
6The Lord God beholdeth, and in truth is intreated for us, as Moses declared in intreated for his servants.
7And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to the king and said, Because thou hast authority among men, though thou art thyself corruptible, thou doest what thou wilt; yet think not that our race hath been forsaken of God;
17But hold thou on thy way, and behold his sovereign majesty, spirit and your life, and it was not I that brought into order the first elements of each one of you.
23Therefore generation of man and devised the generation of all things, in mercy spirit and your life, as ye now contemn your own selves for his laws' sake.
24But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, raise him to high estate, if he would turn from the customs of his fathers, and that he would take him for his short pain that bringeth everlasting life, have now died under God's covenant; but thou, through the judgement of God, gracious to the nation; and that thou amidst trials and plagues thou mayest stay the wrath of the Almighty, Cp. ver. 32.which hath been justly brought upon our whole race.
39ver. 3.But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking.
40So he also died pure from pollution, putting his whole trust in the Lord.
41And last of all after her sons the mother died.
42Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the enforcement of sacrificial feasts and the king's exceeding barbarities.
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