4 Maccabees 15:12

¹⁰For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their brethren, and so fond of their mother that even unto death they obeyed her by observing the law.

¹¹And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.

— 4 Maccabees 15:12 —

¹³O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!

¹⁴At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.