elves, having sinned against our God: therefore
marvellous things are done unto us.

2 Mac 7:19
But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against
God, that thou shalt escape unpunished.

2 Mac 7:20
But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of
honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within
the space of one day, she bare it with a good courage, because
of the hope that she had in the Lord.

2 Mac 7:21
Yea, she exhorted every one of them in her own language,
filled with courageous spirits; and stirring up her womanish
thoughts with a manly stomach, she said unto them,

2 Mac 7:22
I cannot tell how ye came into my womb: for I neither gave
you breath nor life, neither was it I that formed the members of
every one of you;

2 Mac 7:23
But doubtless the Creator of the world, who formed the
generation of man, and found out the beginning of all things,
will also of his own mercy give you breath and life again, as ye
now regard not your own selves for his laws' sake.

2 Mac 7:24
Now Antiochus, thinking himself despised, and suspecting it
to be a reproachful speech, whilst the youngest was yet alive,
did not only exhort him by words, but also assured him with
oaths, that he would make him both a rich and a happy man, if he
would turn from the laws of his fathers; and that also he would
take him for his friend, and trust him with affairs.

2 Mac 7:25
But when the young man would in no case hearken unto him, the
king called his mother, and exhorted her that she would counsel
the young man to save his life.

2 Mac 7:26
And when he had exhorted her with many words, she promised
him that she would counsel her son.

2 Mac 7:27
But she bowing herself toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant
to scorn, spake in her country language on this manner; O my
son, have pity upon me that bare thee nine months in my womb,
and gave thee such three years, and nourished thee, and brought
thee up unto this age, and endured the troubles of education.

2 Mac 7:28
I beseech thee, my son, look upon the heaven and the earth,
and all that is therein, and consider that God made them of
things that were not; and so was mankind made likewise.

2 Mac 7:29
Fear not this tormentor, but, being worthy of thy brethren,
take thy death that I may receive thee again in mercy with thy
brethren.

2 Mac 7:30
Whiles she was yet speaking these words, the young man said,
Whom wait ye for? I will not obey the king's co