Given by: Eleazar, refusing a plan to merely pretend to eat unlawful food. Given to: the reader, on the weight of an elder's example.

Sympathetic officials offered Eleazar a face-saving pretence; he refused, understanding that at ninety his example carried weight and that feigned apostasy would corrupt the faith of the young.

For it doth not become our age, said he, to dissemble: whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore and ten years, was gone over to the life of the heathens:

Eleazar would not even pretend to disobey, lest his example lead the young astray.

2 Maccabees 6:24

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour