Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 16:2
Source: Septuagint
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2I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their passions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments.
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1If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is master even of the passions.
— 4 Maccabees 16:2 —
3And not so fierce were the lions round Daniel, nor the furnace of Mishael burning with most vehement fire, as that natural love of children burned within her, when she beheld her seven sons tortured.
4But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched passions so great and powerful.