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 not only heard the immediate execution of the threat, but undergoing it, persevered; and that through the pains of fire. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 14:7–9
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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)
4 Maccabees 17:9–11
9 “Here an aged priest, an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the society of the Hebrews. (WEB) 10 These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death.” (WEB) 11 For it was truly a divine conte… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 12:1–2
1 When he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the cauldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward, (WEB) 2 whom the tyrant pitying, though he had been dreadfully reproached by his kindred, (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:6–8
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 temp… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 8:25–27
25 Why has such angry zeal taken root in us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king?” (WEB) 26 But the young men didn’t say or think anything of this kind when about to be tortured. (WEB) 27 For they were well aware of the sufferin… (WEB)
Epistle to Diognetus 7:6–8
6 For He will send Him in judgment, and who shall endure His presence? ... (DIO) 7 [Dost thou not see] them thrown to wild beasts that so they may deny the Lord, and yet not overcome? (DIO) 8 Dost thou not see that the more of them are punished, just so many others abound? (DIO)
4 Maccabees 7:23–25
23 For only the wise and brave man is lord over his emotions. (WEB) 24 This is why even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures; (WEB) 25 for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 18:1–2
1 But for your holy ones there was great light. Their enemies, hearing their voice but not seeing their form, counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered, (WEB) 2 yet for that they do not hurt them, though wronged by them before, they are thankful; and because t… (WEB)
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