4 Maccabees 7:9-11

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⁹ You, father, validated our obedience to the law through your endurance unto glory, and you did not abandon the holiness that you praised, but by your deeds you made your words of divine^[a] philosophy credible. ¹⁰ O aged man, more powerful than tortures; O elder, fiercer than fire; O supreme king over the passions, Eleazar! ¹¹ For just as our father Aaron, armed with the censer, ran through the multitude of the people and conquered the fiery angel,^(A)