2 Maccabees 7:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God:

²¹ And she bravely exhorted every one of them in her own language, being filled with wisdom: and joining a man's heart to a woman's thought,

²² She said to them: I know not how you were formed in my womb: for I neither gave you breath, nor soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of every one of you.