Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 15:24
Source: Septuagint
Original
24Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off her feelings through faith in God.
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22With what and what manner of torments was the mother herself tortured, as her sons were undergoing the wheel and the fires!
23But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love.
— 4 Maccabees 15:24 —
25For just as in a council room, beholding in her own soul vehement counselors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children,
26she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children,