6 For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbors men break the threatening waves, and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port, (WEB) 7 so that seven-towered right-reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the tempest of emotions. (WEB) 8 For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying, (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:6–8
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4 Maccabees 15:31–32
31 For like Noah’s ship, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves, (WEB) 32 so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of emotions, and assaulted by violent storms which were the torments of your children, bo… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:2–4
2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, (WEB) 3 in no way shifted the rudder of piety until it sailed into the harbor of victory over death. (WEB) 4 No besieged city has ever held out against many and various war machines as that… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 14:2–4
2 Reasoning is more royal than a king, and freer than freemen! (WEB) 3 What a sacred and harmonious concert of the seven kindred as concerning piety! (WEB) 4 None of the seven youths turned cowardly or shrank back from death. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 11:9–11
9 They all together praised the merciful God, and were yet more strengthened in heart, being ready to assail not only men but the wildest animals and walls of iron, (WEB) 10 they advanced in array, having him who is in heaven to fight on their side, for the Lord had merc… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:23–25
23 Brotherly love being thus sympathetically constituted, the seven kindred had a more sympathetic mutual harmony. (WEB) 24 For being educated in the same law, and practicing the same virtues, and reared up in a just course of life, they increased this harmony with each o… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 3:21–23
21 Then it was pitiful to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the anxiety of the high priest in his great distress. (WEB) 22 While therefore they called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things entrusted to them safe and secure for those who… (WEB) 23 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 14:7–9
7 O holy seven of harmonious kindred! For as the seven days of creation, about religion, (WEB) 8 so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments. (WEB) 9 We now shudder at the recital of the affliction of those young men; but they not only saw, and… (WEB)
Psalms 107:29–31
29 He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed. 30 They rejoiced in the silence, and He guided them to the harbor they desired. 31 Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
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