25. and so they, by reason of my dissimulation, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, should be led astray because of me, and thus I get to myself a pollution and a stain of mine old age.
26. For even if for the present time I shall remove from me the punishment of men, yet shall I not escape the hands of the Almighty, either living or dead.
27. Wherefore, by manfully parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of mine old age,
28. and leave behind a noble ensample to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the reverend and holy laws. And when he had said these words, he went straightway to the instrument of torture.
29. And when they changed the good will they bare him a little before into ill will, because these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness,