IV Maccabees 15:29

29 O holy mother of a nation avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!

IV Maccabees 15:29 In-Context

27 did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.

28 But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude.

29 O holy mother of a nation avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!

30 O thou nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in patience!

31 For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves,