5. For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.
6. O priest worthy of the priesthood! you did not pollute your sacred teeth; nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity.
7. O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life!
8. Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even to death.
9. You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our service past, prevented its destruction, and, by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy.
10. O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the passions, Eleazar!