4 Maccabees 17:5
Source: Septuagint
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.
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3For thou, as a house bravely built upon the pillar of thy children, didst bear without swaying, the shock of tortures.
4Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm substance of the hope of your steadfastness with God.
— 4 Maccabees 17:5 —
6For thy bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.
7And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of thy story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even unto death.