4 Maccabees 15:13-15

Revised Standard Version

¹³ O sacred nature and affection of parental love, yearning of parents toward 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. ¹⁵ She watched the flesh of her children consumed by fire, their toes and fingers scattered^[a] on the ground, and the flesh of the head to the chin exposed like masks.