8 yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:8
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4 Maccabees 15:26–28
26 she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children, (WEB) 27 didn’t lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space. (WEB) 28 But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:22–24
22 With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires! (WEB) 23 But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love. (WEB) 24 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 14:19–20
19 Even bees, at the season of honey-making, attack all who approach, and pierce with their sting, as with a sword, those who draw near their hive, and repel them even to death. (WEB) 20 But sympathy with her children didn’t turn away the mother of the young men, who had… (WEB)
Testament of Judah 2:20–22
20 And when I knew what she had done, I cursed her in the anguish of my soul. (T12) 21 And she also died through her wickedness together with her sons. (T12) 22 And after these things, while Tamar was a widow, she heard after two years that I was going up, to shear my sheep, and ad… (T12)
4 Maccabees 15:1–3
1 O reasoning of the sons, lord over the emotions, and religion more desirable to a mother than children! (WEB) 2 The mother, when two things were set before her, religion and the safety of her seven sons for a time, on the conditional promise of a tyrant, (WEB) 3 rather elected… (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)
4 Maccabees 16:4–6
4 But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched emotions so great and powerful. (WEB) 5 For we must consider also this: that, had the woman been faint hearted, as being their mother, she would have lamented over them, and perhaps might have spoken thus: (WEB) 6 “Ah! I a… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:13–15
13 O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection! (WEB) 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… (WEB)
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