17 O you only woman who have produced perfect holiness! (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:17
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4 Maccabees 17:1–3
1 Some of the spearbearers said that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself on the pile, rather than let them touch her body. (WEB) 2 O you mother, who together with seven children destroyed the violence of the t… (WEB)
2 Esdras 10:56–58
56 Then will you hear as much as your ears may comprehend. (WEB) 57 For you are more blessed than many, and are called by name to be with the Most High, like only a few. (WEB) 58 But tomorrow at night you shall remain here, (WEB)
Apocryphon of John 3:24–26
24 This is because he is the one who gazes at himself, waiting, in «4» [his] light, given that the [...] is glorious. (APJ) 25 To him belongs purity beyond measure. (APJ) 26 He is an aeon that bestows aeons. (APJ)
Proverbs 31:28–30
28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband praises her as well: 29 “Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!” 30 Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
4 Maccabees 15:29–31
29 O holy mother of a nation, avenger of the law, defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections! (WEB) 30 O you nobler in endurance than males, and more courageous than men in perseverance! (WEB) 31 For like Noah’s ship, bearing the world in the world-filli… (WEB)
Apocryphon of John 4:5–7
5 [The first power] (is) the glory of Barbelo, the perfect «5» glory inside the aeons, the glory of the revelation. (APJ) 6 She extolled the virginal Spirit, and she is the one who praised him, because on account of him she had come forth. (APJ) 7 This is the first thought, his… (APJ)
Odes of Solomon 33:4–6
4 And drew to Him all those who obeyed Him; and there did not appear as it were an evil person. (ODE) 5 But there stood a perfect virgin who was proclaiming and calling and saying, (ODE) 6 O ye sons of men, return ye, and ye daughters of men, come ye: (ODE)
2 Baruch 54:9–11
9 For what am I amongst men, Or why am I reckoned amongst those who are more excellent than I, That I have heard all these marvelous things from the Most High, And numberless promises from Him who created me? (2BA) 10 Blessed be my mother among those that bear, And prais… (2BA)
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