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4 Maccabees 15:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 Maccabees 15:1-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 O reason of the children, tyrant over the passions! O piety, more desirable to the mother than her children! 2 Two courses were open to this mother, that of piety and that of preserving her seven sons for a time, as the tyrant had promised. 3 She loved piety more, the piety that preserves them for eternal life according to God’s promise.[a]
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- 15.3 Gk according to God
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