14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:14
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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 16:3–5
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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 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 17:6–8
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4 Maccabees 16:12–14
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4 Maccabees 7:23–25
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4 Maccabees 15:17–19
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