4 Maccabees 14
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4 Maccabees 14
1Furthermore, they encouraged them to face the torture so that they not only despised their agonies but also mastered the passions of brotherly love.
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Wis 6.21
O reason,#14.2 Or O minds more royal than kings and freer than the free! 3O sacred harmony of the seven brothers, well-tuned in regard to piety! 4None of the seven youths proved coward or shrank from death, 5but all of them, as though running the course toward immortality, hastened to death by torture. 6Just as the hands and feet are moved in harmony with the guidance of the mind, so those holy youths, as though moved by an immortal spirit of piety, agreed to go to death for its sake. 7O most holy seven, brothers in harmony! For just as the seven days of creation move in choral dance around piety, 8so these youths, forming a chorus of seven,#14.8 Meaning of Gk uncertain encircled the fear of tortures and dissolved it. 9Even now, we ourselves shudder as we hear of the suffering of these young men; they not only saw what was happening, not only heard the direct word of threat, but also bore the sufferings steadfastly, and in agonies of fire at that. 10What could be more excruciatingly painful than this? For the power of fire is intense and swift, and it consumed their bodies quickly.
An Encomium on the Mother of the Seven
11Do not consider it amazing that reason had full command over these men in their tortures, since even the mind of woman despised more diverse agonies, 12for the mother of the seven young men bore up under the rackings of each one of her children.
13Observe how complex is a mother’s love for her children, which draws everything toward a sympathy felt in her inmost parts. 14Even unreasoning animals, as well as humans, have a sympathy and parental love for their offspring. 15For example, among birds, the ones that are tame protect their young by building on the housetops, 16and the others, by building at the tops of mountains and the depths of chasms, in holes of trees, and on treetops, hatch the nestlings and ward off the intruder. 17If they are not able to keep the intruder#14.17 Gk it away, they do what they can to help their young by flying in circles around them in the anguish of love, warning them with their own calls. 18And why is it necessary to demonstrate sympathy for children by the example of unreasoning animals, 19since even bees at the time for making honeycombs defend themselves against intruders and, as though with an iron dart, sting those who approach their hive and defend it even to the death? 20#2 Macc 7.41But sympathy for her children did not sway the mother of the young men; she was of the same mind as Abraham.
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4 Maccabees 14: NRSVUE
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ចែករំលែក
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ចង់ឱ្យគំនូសពណ៌ដែលបានរក្សាទុករបស់អ្នក មាននៅលើគ្រប់ឧបករណ៍ទាំងអស់មែនទេ? ចុះឈ្មោះប្រើ ឬចុះឈ្មោះចូល
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