4 Maccabees 15:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹² But each child separately and all of them together the mother urged on to death for religion’s sake. ¹³ O sacred nature and affection of parental love, yearning of parents towards offspring, nurture and indomitable suffering by mothers! ¹⁴ This mother, who saw them tortured and burned one by one, because of religion did not change her attitude.