4 Maccabees 14:14

14 Even animals without understanding have sympathy and love for their young, just as human beings do.

4 Maccabees 14:14 In-Context

12 The mother of these seven young men endured the torture of each one of her children.

13 You see how a mother's love for her children is a very complex feeling. Everything is focused on a sympathy that she feels for them deep down inside.

14 Even animals without understanding have sympathy and love for their young, just as human beings do.

15 For example, birds do this. The tame ones protect their young by building their nests on the roof of a house.

16 Other birds build their nests on mountain peaks, in steep canyons, and in the holes of trees or treetops, so they can hatch the baby birds and stop anything from coming too close.