1. When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture.
2. And first, they stripped the old man, adorned as he was with the comeliness of piety.
3. Then tying back his arms and hands, they disdainfully used him with stripes;
4. a herald opposite crying out, Obey the commands of the king.
5. But Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all.