29 O holy mother of a nation, avenger of the law, defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections! (WEB) 30 O you nobler in endurance than males, and more courageous than men in perseverance! (WEB) 31 For like Noah’s ship, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves, (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:29–31
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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 16:13–15
13 But as one possessed with an adamant mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather urged them to death on behalf of religion. (WEB) 14 O woman, soldier of God for religion, you, aged and a female, have conquered through endura… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:16–18
16 O you mother, who was tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those at birth! (WEB) 17 O you only woman who have produced perfect holiness! (WEB) 18 Your firstborn, expiring, didn’t turn you, nor the second, looking miserable in his torments, nor the third, breathing out his… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:12–14
12 But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion. (WEB) 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… (WEB)
2 Esdras 12:41–43
41 “How have we offended you? What evil have we done against you, that you have utterly forsaken us, and sit in this place? (WEB) 42 For of all the prophets, only you are left to us, like a cluster of the vintage, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a harbor for a s… (WEB)
1 Esdras 4:31–33
31 At this, the king gaped and gazed at her with open mouth. If she smiles at him, he laughs. But if she takes any displeasure at him, he flatters her, that she might be reconciled to him again. (WEB) 32 O sirs, how can it not be that women are strong, seeing they do this… (WEB)
Proverbs 31:28–30
28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well: 29 “Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!” 30 Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
2 Baruch 54:9–11
9 For what am I amongst men, Or why am I reckoned amongst those who are more excellent than I, That I have heard all these marvelous things from the Most High, And numberless promises from Him who created me? (2BA) 10 Blessed be my mother among those that bear, And prais… (2BA)
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