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Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well advanced in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh.
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Verse 18. Scribes; a priest. Saint Ambrose—He suffered at Antioch, before the king. Calmet. 7:1. Joseph. l. 2.—The Fathers highly extol his fortitude and virtue, styling him the father of the seven brothers, and the protomartyr of the old law. Calmet.—Yet we find others unnamed suffering before him. verse 10. Bible.—Eleazar was learned in the Scriptures, and in all divine and human knowledge. Worthington.
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