The Koine Bible

And some of the guards were saying also that, as she was about to be taken into custody also for death, lest anyone should touch her body, she threw herself onto the pyre.

O mother, with seven children, who brought down the tyranny of the tyrant and nullified his evil designs and showed the nobility of faith

For just as you, like a roof upon the pillars of your children, bravely founded, stood unmoved and endured the shaking through the torments

Therefore take courage, O holy-souled mother, having the hope of endurance sure toward God

Not so has the moon in heaven with the stars been set in majesty as you, having led the seven brothers equal to stars to godliness, have been held in honor by God and have been established with them in heaven

For your childbearing was from Abraham the father

But if it were possible for us, as on some painting, to portray the history of your piety, the beholders would not shudder, seeing a mother of seven children who, because of piety, endured various torments unto death

For it was also fitting to inscribe on his very tomb these things, spoken as a memorial for those from the nation.

Here an old priest and an old woman and seven children have been buried, because of the force of a tyrant wanting to abolish the commonwealth of the Hebrews.

who also avenged the race, looking to God, and having endured the tortures even unto death

For truly a divine contest was the one brought about through them.

For virtue was then setting forth as an athlete, proving the victory through endurance, imperishability in long life.

But Eleazar was contending first, and the mother of the seven children was exhorting, and the brothers were contending

The tyrant was contending, but the world and the life of men were watching.

But godliness was conquering, crowning its own athletes

Who did not marvel at the athletes of the divine lawgiving? Who did not be astonished?

The tyrant himself indeed and the whole council marveled at their endurance.

through which they also now stand beside the divine throne and live the blessed age

For Moses also says, and all those sanctified under your hands.

And these then, having been sanctified through God, have been honored not only with this honor, but also by the fact that because of them our nation did not let the enemies prevail over us

and that the tyrant be punished and the homeland be purified, as having become a ransom in place of life for the sin of the nation

And through the blood of those devout men and the propitiation of their death, the divine providence saved Israel, who had been previously afflicted by evils.

For when the tyrant Antiochus looked upon their courage of virtue and their endurance under the tortures, he proclaimed to his soldiers their endurance as an example.

and he found them noble and courageous for battle on foot and siege, and having utterly destroyed them he conquered all the enemies