3
rather elected the religion which according to God preserves to eternal life.
4
O in what way can I describe ethically the affections of parents toward their children, the resemblance of soul and of form engrafted into the small type of a child in a wonderful manner, especially through the greater sympathy of mothers with the feelings of those born of them!
5
for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children.
6
And of all mothers the mother of the seven was the fondest of children, who in seven childbirths had deeply engendered love toward them;
7
and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them;
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.