1If, then, a woman advanced in years and mother of seven sons endured seeing her children tortured to death, it must be admitted that pious reason is sovereign over the passions.
2Thus I have demonstrated not only that men have ruled over the passions but also that a woman has despised the fiercest tortures.
3 I shall not see your children or have the happiness of being called grandmother.
10Alas, I who had so many and beautiful children am a widow and alone, with many sorrows.
11And when I die, I shall have none of my sons to bury me.”
12Yet that holy and God-fearing mother did not wail with such a lament for any of them, nor did she dissuade any of them from dying, nor did she grieve as they were dying.
13 and descending upon him, he did not cower.
21Dan 3.21; 6.16Daniel the righteous was thrown to the lions, and Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael were hurled into the fiery furnace and endured it for the sake of God.
22You, too, must show the same faithfulness toward God and not be grieved.
23It is unreasonable for people who have knowledge of piety not to withstand pain.”
24By these words the mother of the seven encouraged and persuaded each of her sons to die rather than violate God’s commandment.
25Ex 3.6; 4 Macc 7.19; Mk 12.26They knew also that those who die for the sake of God live to God, as do Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the patriarchs.
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