4 Maccabees 14:10-12

Revised Standard Version

¹⁰ What could be more excruciatingly painful than this? For the power of fire is intense and swift, and it consumed their bodies quickly.

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 the mind of woman despised even more diverse agonies, ¹² for the mother of the seven young men bore up under the rackings of each one of her children.