Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 15:14
Source: Septuagint
Original
14At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.
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12But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion.
13O holy nature and parental feeling, and reward of bringing up children, and unconquerable maternal affection!
— 4 Maccabees 15:14 —
15She beheld her children’s flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forward down to their beards, like masks.
16O thou mother, who wast tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition!