4 In what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form impressed into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them! (WEB) 5 For by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children. (WEB) 6 Of all mothers, the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love toward them. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:4–6
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4 Maccabees 15:12–14
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4 Maccabees 13:18–20
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4 Maccabees 15:24–26
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4 Maccabees 16:4–6
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