2 Maccabees 6:23-25

Wycliffe Bible

²³ And he began for to think (about) the worthy excellence of age, and of his eld (age), and the free-born hoariness of nobility, and of (his) best living from child(hood); and by the ordinances of (the) holy law, and made of (or by) God, he answered soon, saying, that he would be sent before into hell (or to the grave). [And he began for to think the worthy excellence of age, and his eld, and the free born hoariness, or nobility, and from childhood of best living; and after the ordinances of holy law, and made of God, he answered soon, saying, him for to will to be sent before into hell.]

²⁴ For he said, It is not worthy to (or for) our age for to feign, (so) that many young men deem, that Eleazar of fourscore year and ten, hath passed to the life of aliens, (or to the religion of strangers),

²⁵ and that they be deceived by my feigning, and that for (a) little time of corruptible life, and that by this I get spot and execration, or cursedness, to mine eld (age).