20 O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the rack, and to all his torments! (WEB)
4 Maccabees 18:20
Semantically similar passages
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 16:14–16
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 Eleaza… (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)
4 Maccabees 7:9–11
9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our past service, prevented its destruction, and by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy. (WEB) 10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elde… (WEB)
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 7:4–6
4 When these were immediately heated, he gave orders to cut out the tongue of him who had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, with the rest of his brothers and his mother looking on. (WEB) 5 And when he was utterly maimed, the king ga… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:8–10
8 For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying, (WEB) 9 “Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace. (WEB) 10 Let’s not be cowards in the manifestation of… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:2–4
2 I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their emotions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments. (WEB) 3 The lions around Daniel were not so fierce, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural lov… (WEB)
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources