4 Maccabees 15:30

²⁸But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude.

²⁹O mother of a nation, avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!

— 4 Maccabees 15:30 —

³¹For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves,

³²so thou, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of thy children, didst bear up nobly against the storms against religion.