Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 15:31
Source: Septuagint
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31For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves,
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29O mother of a nation, avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!
30O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!
— 4 Maccabees 15:31 —
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.