Filled with a noble resolve, she encouraged each of them in their ancestral tongue, and, rousing her woman’s reasoning with a man’s courage, she said to them,
In context
19But do not suppose that you will go unpunished for daring to fight against God.” 20Most wonderful of all was the mother, worthy of an honored memory: she watched seven sons perish in the span of a single day and endured it with a brave heart, because of the hopes she placed in the Lord. 21Filled with a noble resolve, she encouraged each of them in their ancestral tongue, and, rousing her woman’s reasoning with a man’s courage, she said to them, 22“I do not know how you came to appear in my womb. It was not I who bestowed on you breath and life, nor was it I who arranged the elements of each of you. 23Therefore the Creator of the world — he who shaped the beginning of humankind and devised the origin of all things — gives you back breath and life again in his mercy, since you now disregard yourselves on account of his laws.”
