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4 Maccabees 14:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 14:11-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
An Encomium on the Mother of the Seven
11 Do not consider it amazing that reason had full command over these men in their tortures, since even the mind of woman despised more diverse agonies, 12 for the mother of the seven young men bore up under the rackings of each one of her children.
13 Observe how complex is a mother’s love for her children, which draws everything toward a sympathy felt in her inmost parts.
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