4 Maccabees 17:6

⁴Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm substance of the hope of your steadfastness with God.

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.

— 4 Maccabees 17:6 —

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.

⁸And it had been a worthy thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,