4 Maccabees 14:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

14 Furthermore, they encouraged them to face the torture, so that they not only despised their agonies, but also mastered the emotions of brotherly love.

² O reason,^[a] more royal than kings and freer than the free! ³ O sacred and harmonious concord of the seven brothers on behalf of religion!