22 With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires! (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:22
Semantically similar passages
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 15:15–17
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 bi… (WEB)
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)
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)
4 Maccabees 18:19–21
19 This is our life and the length of our days. (WEB) 20 O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the rack, and to al… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:12–14
12 Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead. (WEB) 13 But as one possessed with an adamant mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather urged them to death on behalf of religion. (WEB) 14 O woman, sol… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 7:4–6
4 When these were immediately heated, he gave orders to cut out the tongue of him who had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, with the rest of his brothers and his mother looking on. (WEB) 5 And when he was utterly maimed, the king ga… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:10–12
10 For they were both just and temperate, and courageous, high-minded, fond of their kindred, and so fond of their mother that even to death they obeyed her by observing the law. (WEB) 11 Yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw… (WEB)
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources