4 Maccabees 17:4

²O thou mother, who together with seven children didst destroy the violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith!

³For thou, as a house bravely built upon the pillar of thy children, didst bear without swaying, the shock of tortures.

— 4 Maccabees 17:4 —

⁵Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as thou art established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with thy sons whom thou didst illuminate with religion to the stars.

⁶For thy bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.