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Although she witnessed the destruction of seven children and the ingenious and various rackings, this noble mother disregarded all these because of faith in God.
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How great and how many torments the mother then suffered as her sons were tortured on the wheel and with the hot irons!
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But devout reason, giving her heart a man's courage in the very midst of her emotions, strengthened her to disregard, for the time, her parental love.
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Although she witnessed the destruction of seven children and the ingenious and various rackings, this noble mother disregarded all these because of faith in God.
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For as in the council chamber of her own soul she saw mighty advocates—nature, family, parental love, and the rackings of her children—
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this mother held two ballots, one bearing death and the other deliverance for her children.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Other ancient authorities read [having bidden them farewell, surrendered them]
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