Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 16:11
Source: Septuagint
Original
11Nor, should I die, shall I have a son to bury me. But with such a lament as this the holy and God-fearing mother bewailed none of them.
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In context
9Alas, of my children, some of you unmarried, and some who have married to no profit, I shall not see your children, nor be felicitated as a grandmother.
10Ah, that I who had many and fair children, should be a lone widow full of sorrows!
— 4 Maccabees 16:11 —
12Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead.
13But as one possessed with an adamantine mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather with supplications exhorted them to death in behalf of religion.