4 Maccabees 16:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ The lions surrounding Daniel were not so savage, nor was the raging fiery furnace of Mishael so intensely hot, as was her innate parental love, inflamed as she saw her seven sons tortured in such varied ways. ⁴ But the mother quenched so many and such great emotions by devout reason.

⁵ Consider this also: If this woman, though a mother, had been faint-hearted, she would have mourned over them and perhaps spoken as follows: