4 Maccabees 7:5-7

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⁵ For in setting his mind firm like a jutting cliff, our father Eleazar broke the maddening waves of the passions. ⁶ O priest, worthy of the priesthood, you neither defiled your sacred teeth nor profaned your stomach, which had room only for reverence and purity, by eating defiling foods.^{(A) 7} O man in harmony with the law and philosopher of divine life!