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 endurance even a tyrant; and even though weak, have been found more powerful in deeds and words. (WEB) 15 For when you were seized along with your children, you stood looking at Eleazar in torture, and said to your sons in the Hebrew tongue, (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:13–15
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4 Maccabees 17:1–3
1 Some of the spearbearers said that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself on the pile, rather than let them touch her body. (WEB) 2 O you mother, who together with seven children destroyed the violence of the t… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:20–22
20 But above all, the mother was marvelous and worthy of honorable memory; for when she watched seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bore the sight with a good courage because of her hope in the Lord. (WEB) 21 She exhorted each one of them in the language… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:1–2
1 If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even to death, it must be admitted that religious reasoning is master even of the emotions. (WEB) 2 I have proved, then, that not only men have obtai… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 17:9–11
9 “Here an aged priest, an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the society of the Hebrews. (WEB) 10 These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death.” (WEB) 11 For it was truly a divine conte… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 9:17–19
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4 Maccabees 1:7–9
7 I might prove to you from many other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the emotions; (WEB) 8 but I will prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven kindred, and their mother, who suffered death in defense of virtu… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:27–29
27 didn’t lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space. (WEB) 28 But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude. (WEB) 29 O holy mother of a nation, avenger of the law, defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affec… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 9:29–31
29 “How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers!” Then he said to the tyrant, (WEB) 30 “Don’t you think, most cruel of all tyrants, that you are now tortured more than I, finding your arrogant conception of tyranny conquered by our perseverance in beh… (WEB)
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