Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 15:26
Source: Septuagint
Original
26she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children,
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24Although beholding the destruction of seven children, the noble mother, after one embrace, stripped off her feelings through faith in God.
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,
— 4 Maccabees 15:26 —
27did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.
28But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude.