| II Maccabees 6:18
| Eleazar, one of the chief of the scribes, a man advanced in years, and of a comely countenance, was pressed to open his mouth to eat swine's flesh.
| Scribes; a priest. (St. Ambrose) --- He suffered at Antioch, before the king, 2 Machabees 7:1. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] 50:2.) --- 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, ver. 10. (Haydock) --- Eleazar was learned in the Scriptures, and in all divine and human knowledge. (Worthington)
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