5 For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.
6 O priest worthy of the priesthood! you did not pollute your sacred teeth; nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.
7 O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!
8 Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even to death.
9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy.
10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!
11 For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel,