Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 17:8
Source: Septuagint
Original
8And it had been a worthy thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,
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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.
— 4 Maccabees 17:8 —
9Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.
10These also avenged their nation, looking unto God, and enduring torments unto death.