13. For it is a token of great goodness when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.
14. For, not as with other nations (whom the Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them in the fulness of their sins:)
15. Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us.
16. And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: but though he chastise his people with adversity, he forsaketh them not.
17. But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers. And now we must come to the narration.
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.
19. But he, choosing rather a most glorious death than a hateful life, went forward voluntarily to the torment.