23 For it is unreasonable that they who know religion wouldn’t stand up against troubles. (WEB) 24 With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, encouraged and persuaded them not to transgress God’s commandment. (WEB) 25 They saw this, too, that those who die for God, live to God, like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the patriarchs. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:23–25
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4 Maccabees 7:18–20
18 But those who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the emotions of the flesh: (WEB) 19 they who believe that to God they don’t die; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they live to God. (WEB) 20 This circumstance, then, is b… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 17:9–11
9 “Here an aged priest, an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the society of the Hebrews. (WEB) 10 These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death.” (WEB) 11 For it was truly a divine conte… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:12–14
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4 Maccabees 12:13–15
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4 Maccabees 9:5–7
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4 Maccabees 6:21–23
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4 Maccabees 17:21–23
21 That tyrant was punished and their country purified. (WEB) 22 For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation. The Divine Providence saved Israel, which was afflicted before, by the blood of those pious ones and the death that appeased wrath. (WEB) 23 For the tyrant Antiochu… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:1–2
1 If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even to death, it must be admitted that religious reasoning is master even of the emotions. (WEB) 2 I have proved, then, that not only men have obtai… (WEB)
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