4 Maccabees 13:18

¹⁶Let us arm ourselves, therefore, in the abnegation of the divine reasoning.

¹⁷If we suffer thus, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob will receive us, and all the fathers will commend us.

— 4 Maccabees 13:18 —

¹⁹Now you are not ignorant of the charm of brotherhood, which the Divine and all-wise Providence has imparted through fathers to children, and has engendered through the mother’s womb.

²⁰In which these brothers having remained an equal time, and having been formed for the same period, and been increased by the same blood, and having been perfected through the same principle of life,