8 so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 14:8
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4 Maccabees 14:3–5
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) 5 But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures. (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 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 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)
4 Maccabees 14:11–13
11 Don’t think it wonderful that reasoning ruled over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains. (WEB) 12 For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children. (WEB) 13 Consider how comprehensive is the love of o… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 11:8–10
8 As they were there, close to Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head in white apparel, brandishing weapons of gold. (WEB) 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 ani… (WEB)
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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