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,
12. so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, did not give up his reasoning.
13. And, what is most wonderful, though an old man, though the labors of his body were now spent, and his fibres were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth.
14. By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed instrument.