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and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them;
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yet, through fear of God, she neglected the temporary salvation of her children.
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Not but that, on account of the excellent disposition to the law, her maternal affection toward them was increased.
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For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their brethren, and so fond of their mother that even unto death they obeyed her by observing the law.
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And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.