Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version as all ought to go who have the courage to refuse things that it is not right to taste, even for the natural love of life. Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And considering in what manner he was to come to it, patiently bearing, he determined not to do any unlawful things for the love of life. 2 Maccabees 6:18Eleazar 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. 2 Maccabees 6:19 But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life, went forward voluntarily to the torment. 2 Maccabees 6:21 But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded, of the flesh of the sacrifice: 2 Maccabees 6:22 That by so doing he might be delivered from death; and for the sake of their old friendship with the man, they did him this courtesy. Context 2 Maccabees 6…19But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life, went forward voluntarily to the torment. 20And considering in what manner he was to come to it, patiently bearing, he determined not to do any unlawful things for the love of life. 21But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded, of the flesh of the sacrifice:… Cross References 2 Maccabees 6:18 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. 2 Maccabees 6:19 But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life, went forward voluntarily to the torment. 2 Maccabees 6:21 But they that stood by, being moved with wicked pity, for the old friendship they had with the man, taking him aside, desired that flesh might be brought which it was lawful for him to eat, that he might make as if he had eaten, as the king had commanded, of the flesh of the sacrifice: 2 Maccabees 6:22 That by so doing he might be delivered from death; and for the sake of their old friendship with the man, they did him this courtesy. |
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