15. not so does he also deal with us, as if to put off our sins until the end, so as to punish us for them eventually.
16. Because of this, he certainly would never take away his mercy from us. Yet truly, chastising his people in adversity, he does not abandon them.
17. But these few things have been spoken by us as a reminder to the reader. For now we have arrived at the narration.
18. And so, Eleazar, one of the chief scribes, a man advanced in years and of stately countenance, was compelled to open his mouth wide to consume the flesh of swine.
19. Yet he, embracing a most glorious death as greater than a detestable life, went forward voluntarily to the torments.
20. And so, thinking over the manner by which he ought to approach it, enduring patiently, he was determined not to permit, due to a love for life, any unlawful things.