14 At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing. (WEB) 15 She saw her children’s flesh dissolving around the fire, and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forward down to their beards, like masks. (WEB) 16 O you mother, who was tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those at birth! (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:14–16
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4 Maccabees 15:21–23
21 Not so do siren melodies or songs of swans attract the hearers to listening, O voices of children calling on your mother in the midst of torments! (WEB) 22 With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and… (WEB) 23 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 14:11–13
11 Don’t think it wonderful that reasoning ruled over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains. (WEB) 12 For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children. (WEB) 13 Consider how comprehensive is the love of o… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:10–12
10 Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows! (WEB) 11 Nor, should I die, will I have a son to bury me.” But with such a lament as this, the holy and God-fearing mother wept for none of them. (WEB) 12 Nor did she divert any of them from death… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 17:2–4
2 O you mother, who together with seven children destroyed the violence of the tyrant, and rendered void his wicked intentions, and exhibited the nobleness of faith! (WEB) 3 For you, like a house bravely built on the pillar of your children, bore the shock of tortures w… (WEB)
Numbers 12:11–13
11 and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed. 12 Please do not let her be like a stillborn infant whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.” 13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, pl…
4 Maccabees 16:2–4
2 I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their emotions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments. (WEB) 3 The lions around Daniel were not so fierce, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural lov… (WEB)
Matthew 24:18–20
18 And let no one in the field return for his cloak. 19 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! 20 Pray that your flight will not occur in the winter or on the Sabbath.
Tobit 3:8–10
8 because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the… (WEB)
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