²² but as though transformed by fire into immortality he nobly endured the rackings.^(A)

¹⁵ No, by the blessed death of my brothers, by the eternal destruction of the tyrant, and by the everlasting^[a] life of the pious, I will not renounce our noble family ties.

¹³ On the contrary, as though having a mind like adamant and giving rebirth for immortality to the whole number of her sons, she implored them and urged them on to death for the sake of piety.^(A)

²³ But the sons of Abraham with their victorious mother are gathered together into the chorus of the fathers and have received pure and immortal souls from God,