6
For just as hands and feet are moved sympathetically with the directions of the soul, so those holy youths agreed unto death for religion's sake, as through the immortal soul of religion.
4
None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.
5
But all of them, as though running the road to immortality, hastened on to death through tortures.
6
For just as hands and feet are moved sympathetically with the directions of the soul, so those holy youths agreed unto death for religion's sake, as through the immortal soul of religion.
7
O holy seven of harmonious brethren! for as the seven days of creation, about religion,
8
so the youths, circling around the number seven, annulled the fear of torments.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.