4 Maccabees 5:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴ When many people had been rounded up, one man, Eleazar by name, leader of the flock, was brought^[a] before the king. He was a man of priestly family, learned in the law, advanced in age, and known to many in the tyrant’s court because of his philosophy.^[b]

⁵ When Antiochus saw him he said, ⁶ ‘Before I begin to torture you, old man, I would advise you to save yourself by eating pork,