Wherefore, by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age:

Wherefore, by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age:

2 Maccabees 6:25
And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a corruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain and a curse upon my old age.

2 Maccabees 6:26
For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the punishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty neither alive nor dead.

2 Maccabees 6:28
And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith carried to execution.

2 Maccabees 6:29
And they that led him, and had been a little before more mild, were changed to wrath for the words he had spoken, which they thought were uttered out of arrogancy.