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 without swaying. (WEB) 4 Cheer up, therefore, O holy-minded mother! Hold the firm hope of your steadfastness with God. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 17:2–4
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4 Maccabees 15:15–17
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) 16 O you mother, who was tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those at bi… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:23–25
23 But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love. (WEB) 24 Although seeing the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off her feelings through f… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:19–21
19 but don’t think that you will be unpunished, having tried to fight against God!” (WEB) 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 coura… (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)
Baruch 4:26–28
26 My delicate ones have traveled rough roads. They were taken away like a flock carried off by enemies. (WEB) 27 Take courage, my children, and cry to God; for you will be remembered by him who has brought this upon you. (WEB) 28 For as it was your decision to go astray from God,… (WEB)
2 Esdras 2:14–16
14 Call heaven and earth to witness. Call them to witness, for I have left out evil, and created the good, for I live, says the Lord. (WEB) 15 “Mother, embrace your children. I will bring them out with gladness like a dove does. Establish their feet, for I have chosen you… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:28–30
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 affections! (WEB) 30 O you nobler in endurance than males, and more courageous than men in perseverance! (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)
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