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 around the fire, and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forward down to their beards, like masks. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:13–15
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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 16:3–5
3 The lions around Daniel were not so fierce, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural love of children burned within her, when she saw her seven sons tortured. (WEB) 4 But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched emotions so… (WEB) 5 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:10–12
10 Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows! (WEB) 11 Nor, should I die, will I have a son to bury me.” But with such a lament as this, the holy and God-fearing mother wept for none of them. (WEB) 12 Nor did she divert any of them from death… (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)
4 Maccabees 15:1–2
1 O reasoning of the sons, lord over the emotions, and religion more desirable to a mother than children! (WEB) 2 The mother, when two things were set before her, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant, (WEB)
4 Maccabees 17:2–4
2 O you mother, who together with seven children destroyed the violence of the tyrant, and rendered void his wicked intentions, and exhibited the nobleness of faith! (WEB) 3 For you, like a house bravely built on the pillar of your children, bore the shock of tortures w… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:7–9
7 Through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, she was compelled to feel sympathy with them; (WEB) 8 yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children. (WEB) 9 Not only so, but on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 17:6–8
6 For your bearing of children was after the manner of a child of Abraham. (WEB) 7 If it were lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of your story, the spectators wouldn’t shudder at seeing the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion vario… (WEB)
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