6:9 And whoso would not conform themselves to the manners of the Gentiles should be put to death. Then might a man have seen the present misery.
6:10 For there were two women brought, who had circumcised their children; whom when they had openly led round about the city, the babes hanging at their breasts, they cast them down headlong from the wall.
6:11 And others, that had run together into caves near by, to keep the sabbath day secretly, being discovered by Philip, were all burnt together, because they made a conscience to help themselves for the honour of the most sacred day.
6:12 Now I beseech those that read this book, that they be not discouraged for these calamities, but that they judge those punishments not to be for destruction, but for a chastening of our nation.
6:13 For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished.
6:14 For not as with other nations, whom the Lord patiently forbeareth to punish, till they be come to the fulness of their sins, so dealeth he with us,
6:15 Lest that, being come to the height of sin, afterwards he should take vengeance of us.
6:16 And therefore he never withdraweth his mercy from us: and though he punish with adversity, yet doth he never forsake his people.
6:17 But let this that we at spoken be for a warning unto us. And now will we come to the declaring of the matter in a few words.
6:18 Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, an aged man, and of a well favoured countenance, was constrained to open his mouth, and to eat swine’s flesh.