14:1
The aged Elazar is pressured to eat forbidden flesh or to pretend compliance so younger people will think he obeyed the king.
14:2
He refuses both the act and the deception, saying that an appearance of betrayal would damage those who look to him.
14:3
He endures torture rather than trade a long life of discipline for a short extension of years.
14:4
His death becomes a model of integrity in which public example and inward obedience cannot be separated.