4 Maccabees 14:12

¹² For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children. (WEB)

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4 Maccabees 15:21–23

²¹ Not so do siren melodies or songs of swans attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling on your mother in the midst of torments! (WEB) ²² With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and… (WEB) ²³ … (WEB)

4 Maccabees 15:13–15

¹³ O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection! (WEB) ¹⁴ At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing. (WEB) ¹⁵ She saw her children’s flesh dissolving… (WEB)

4 Maccabees 17:2–4

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4 Maccabees 16:12–14

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2 Maccabees 7:19–21

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4 Maccabees 15:5–7

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4 Maccabees 16:2–4

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4 Maccabees 17:6–8

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