4 Maccabees 16:22

²⁰For whom also our father Abraham was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him.

²¹And the righteous Daniel was cast unto the lions; and Hananiah, and Azariah, and Mishael, were slung out into a furnace of fire; yet they endured through God.

— 4 Maccabees 16:22 —

²³For it is unreasonable that they who know religion should not stand up against troubles.

²⁴With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, overpersuaded them from transgressing the commandment of God.