Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 15:25
Source: Septuagint
Original
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,
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23But religious reasoning, having strengthened her courage in the midst of sufferings, enabled her to forego, for the time, parental love.
24Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off her feelings through faith in God.
— 4 Maccabees 15:25 —
26she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children,
27did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.