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But she, the mother of those young men, with a soul like Abraham, was not moved from her purpose by her affection for her children.

Thy firstborn, giving up the ghost, did not alter thy resolution, nor thy second, looking with eyes of pity on thee under his tortures, nor thy third, breathing out his spirit.

When thou sawest the flesh of one son being severed after the flesh of another, and hand after hand being cut off, and head after head being flayed, and corpse cast upon corpse, and the place crowded with spectators on account of the tortures of thy children, thou sheddest not a tear.

Not the melodies of the sirens nor the songs of swans with sweet sound do so charm the hearer's ears, as sounded the voices of the sons, speaking to the mother from amid the torments.

And although she saw the destruction of her seven children and the many and varied forms of their torments, the noble mother willingly surrendered them through faith in God. 20 For she beheld in her own mind, even as it had been cunning advocates in a council-chamber, nature, and parenthood, and mother-love, and her children on the rack, and it was as if she, the mother, having the choice between two votes in the case of her children, one for their death and one to save them alive, thereupon regarded not the saving of her seven sons for a little time, but, as a true daughter of Abraham, called to mind his God-fearing courage.

I have proved, accordingly, that not only have men triumphed over their sufferings, but that a woman also has despised the most dreadful tortures.

And not so fierce were the lions around Daniel, not so hot was the burning fiery furnace of Mishael, as burned in her the instinct of motherhood at the sight of her seven sons being tortured.

And not so fierce were the lions around Daniel, not so hot was the burning fiery furnace of Mishael, as burned in her the instinct of motherhood at the sight of her seven sons being tortured.

But the holy and God-fearing mother wailed not with this lamentation over any one of them, neither besought she any to escape death, nor lamented over them as dying men; but, as though she had a soul of adamant and were bringing forth the number of her sons, for a second time, into immortal life, she besought rather and entreated of them that they should die for religion's sake.

Remember that for the sake of God ye have come into the world, and have enjoyed life, and that therefore ye owe it to God to endure all pain for his sake; for whom also our father Abraham made haste to sacrifice his son Isaac, the ancestor of our nation; and Isaac, seeing his father's hand lifting the knife against him, did not shrink.

And ye also, having the same faith unto God, be not troubled; for it were against Reason that ye, knowing righteousness, should not withstand the pains.'

And ye also, having the same faith unto God, be not troubled; for it were against Reason that ye, knowing righteousness, should not withstand the pains.'

Thou wert nobly set as a roof upon thy sons as pillars, and the earthquake of the torments shook thee not at all.

Not so majestic stands the moon amid the stars in heaven as thou, having lit the path of thy seven starlike sons unto righteousness, standest in honour with God; and thou art set in heaven with them.

And had it been lawful for us to paint, as might some artist, the tale of thy piety, would not the spectators have shuddered at the mother of seven sons suffering for righteousness' sake multitudinous tortures even unto death?

Who were not amazed at them? The tyrant himself and his whole council admired their endurance, whereby they now do both Stand beside the throne of God and live the blessed age.

And these men, therefore, having sanctified themselves for God's sake, not only have received this honour, but also the honour that through them the enemy had no more power over our people, and the tyrant suffered punishment, and our country was purified, they having as it were become a ransom for our nation's sin; and through the blood of these righteous men and the propitiation of their death, the divine Providence delivered Israel that before was evil entreated.

O Israelites, children born of the seed of Abraham, obey this Law, and be righteous in all ways, recognizing that Inspired Reason is lord over the passions, and over pains, not only from within, but from without ourselves; by which means those men, delivering up their bodies to the torture for righteousness' sake, not only won the admiration of mankind, but were deemed worthy of a divine inheritance.

O Israelites, children born of the seed of Abraham, obey this Law, and be righteous in all ways, recognizing that Inspired Reason is lord over the passions, and over pains, not only from within, but from without ourselves; by which means those men, delivering up their bodies to the torture for righteousness' sake, not only won the admiration of mankind, but were deemed worthy of a divine inheritance.

'I was a pure maiden, and I strayed not from my father's house, and I kept guard over the rib that was builded into Eve.

"Yea even though thou pass through the fire, the flame shall not hurt thee."

He confirmed the words of Ezekiel, "Shall these dry bones live?" For he forgat not the song that Moses taught, which teaches, "I will slay and I will make alive. This is your life and the blessedness of your days."'

Ah, cruel was the day, and yet not cruel, when the cruel tyrant of the Greeks set the fire blazing for his barbarous braziers, and with his passions boiling brought to the catapult and back again to his tortures the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham, and blinded the eyeballs of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and slew them with many kinds of torment.

The Lord is on my head like a crown, and I shall not be without Him.

For it is not like a withered crown which buddeth not: but thou livest upon my head, and thou hast blossomed upon my head.

For it is not like a withered crown which buddeth not: but thou livest upon my head, and thou hast blossomed upon my head.

For I should not have known how to love the Lord, if He had not loved me.

For I should not have known how to love the Lord, if He had not loved me.

This is the Spirit of the Lord, which doth not lie, which teacheth the sons of men to know His ways.

And it is not (possible) that he should change it and put it in another place: because he hath no power over it:

That which is the older shall not be altered by those that are younger than itself.

Thou hast given us thy fellowship: it was not that thou wast in need of us: but that we are in need of thee:

So that thou mayest, not draw them back and take them again:

O Most High, thou wilt not forsake me, for thou art my hope:

My persecutors will come and not see me:

And they shall have no light to see: they may not take hold upon me.

For they have devised a counsel, and it did not succeed:

For my hope is upon the Lord, and I will not fear, and because the Lord is my salvation, I will not fear:

For my hope is upon the Lord, and I will not fear, and because the Lord is my salvation, I will not fear:

And He is as a garland on my head and I shall not be moved; even if everything should be shaken, I stand firm;

And if all things visible should perish, I shall not die; because the Lord is with me and I am with Him. Hallelujah.

And the restrainers of the children of men were not able to restrain it, nor the arts of those whose business it is to restrain waters;

And I trembled not when I saw Him: because He was gracious to me:

Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:

And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:

He hath given Him to be seen of them that are His, in order that they may recognize Him that made them: and that they might not suppose that they came of themselves:

Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have your hearts known what I am showing to you.

For I do not turn away my face from them that are mine;

Who then shall rise up against my handiwork, or who is there that is not subject to them?

And my righteousness goeth before them and they shall not be deprived of my name, for it is with them.

took pleasure in them and am not ashamed of them:

That none of those who hear may fall in war, and that those again who have known Him may not perish, and that those who receive may not be ashamed.

That none of those who hear may fall in war, and that those again who have known Him may not perish, and that those who receive may not be ashamed.

And I drank and was inebriated with the living water that doth not die;

And my inebriation was not one without knowledge, but I forsook vanity and turned to the Most High my God,

And its course knows no limit. Never doth it fail, but it stands sure, and it knows not descent nor the way of it.

Turn not away thy mercies from me, O Lord: and take not thy kindness from me.

Turn not away thy mercies from me, O Lord: and take not thy kindness from me.

And they know not how to stand and be idle; and His heavenly hosts are subject to His word.

I was loosed from vanity, and I was not condemned:

And the thought of truth led me on. And I walked after it and did not wander:

And I went over all my bondmen to loose them; that I might not leave any man bound or binding:

My members were strengthened that they might not fall from His strength.

O Lord, for the sake of them that are deficient do not remove thy word from me!

Let not the luminary be conquered by the darkness; nor let truth flee away from falsehood.

Thou art my God. Falsehood and death are not in thy mouth:

For thy will is perfection; and vanity thou knowest not,

And error thou knowest not,

And they have not been corrupt in their imagination; for such were in the mind of the Lord;

And because she was not sufficiently prepared, and she had not sought a midwife (for He brought her to bear) she brought forth, as if she were a man, of her own will;

And because she was not sufficiently prepared, and she had not sought a midwife (for He brought her to bear) she brought forth, as if she were a man, of her own will;

For His thought is not like the thought of the world nor the thought of the flesh, nor like them that serve carnally.

Present your reins before Him blamelessly: and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to soul.

Thou shalt not acquire a stranger by the price of thy silver, neither shalt thou seek to devour thy neighbour,

Because it was not permitted to them to loose its seal: for the power that was over the seal was greater than they.

And no food was given to them, because it did not belong to them;

And every one of them that was imperfect perished: for it was not possible to give them a word that they might remain:

And the Lord destroyed the imaginations of all them that had not the truth with them.

For they who in their hearts were lifted up were deficient in wisdom, and so they were rejected, because the truth was not with them.

Thou didst set me a lamp at my right hand and at my left: and in me there shall be nothing that is not bright:

For His harp is in my hands, and the Odes of His rest shall not be silent.

He has richly blessed me and my head is with Him: and the sword shall not divide me from Him, nor the scimitar;

And I did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs.

And I did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs.

And they sought for my death and did not find it: for I was older than the memorial of them;

The Lord is my hope: in Him I shall not be confounded.

And the honeycomb of bees is not to be compared with it.

And it came infinitely and invisibly: and until it was set in the midst they did not know it:

But I endured and held my peace and was silent, as if not, moved by them.

In order, that I might redeem my people, and inherit it and that I might not make void my promises to the fathers, to whom I promised the salvation of their seed. Hallelujah.

And drew to Him all those who obeyed Him; and there did not appear as it were an evil person.

And make you wise in the ways of truth: that you be not destroyed nor perish:

I am your judge; and they who have put me on shall not be injured: but they shall possess the new world that is incorrupt:

And it went with me and made me rest, and suffered me not to wander, because it was the Truth;

And I did not make an error in anything because I obeyed the Truth.

For Error flees away from it, and meets it not: but the Truth proceeds in the right path, and

Whatever I did not know, it made clear to me, all the poisons of error, and the plagues of death which they think to be sweetness:

And I was made wise so as not to fall into the hands of the deceiver; and I congratulated myself because the Truth went with me,

For they are more swift than lightning and more rapid, and those who cross them in faith are not moved;

And those who walk on them without blemish shall not be afraid.