4 Maccabees 17:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁵ The moon in heaven with the stars is not so majestic as you, who, after lighting the way of your star-like seven sons to piety, stand in honor before God and are firmly set in heaven with them. ⁶ For your children were true descendants of father Abraham.^[a]

The Effect of the Martyrdoms

⁷ If it were possible for us to paint the history of your piety as an artist might, would not those who beheld it shudder as they saw the mother of the seven children enduring their varied tortures to death for the sake of piety?