2 And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety.
3 Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes;
4 a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king.
5 But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all.
6 But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood streamed down, and his sides were pierced through.
7 And falling upon the ground, from his body having no power to support the pains, he yet kept his reasoning upright and unbending.
8 then one of the harsh spearbearers leaped upon his belly as he was falling, to force him upright.