4 Maccabees 16:4-6

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⁴ But the mother quenched so many and such great passions by pious reason.

⁵ Consider this also: If this woman, though a mother, had been fainthearted, she would have mourned over them and perhaps spoken as follows: ⁶ “O how wretched am I and thrice-wretched over and over! After bearing seven children, I am now the mother of none!