2 Maccabees 7:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language, being filled with wisdom: and joining a man's heart to a woman's thought,

²² She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb: for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you.

²³ But the Creator of the world, that formed the nativity of man, and that found out the origin of all, he will restore to you again in his mercy, both breath and life, as now you despise yourselves for the sake of his laws.