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For whom also our father Abraham was forward to sacrifice Isaac our progenitor, and shuddered not at the sight of his own paternal hand descending down with the sword upon him.
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And the righteous Daniel was cast unto the lions; and Ananias, and Azarias, and Misael, were slung out into a furnace of fire; yet they endured through God.
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You, then, having the same faith towards God, be not troubled.
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For it is unreasonable that they who know religion should not stand up against troubles.
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With these arguments, the mother of seven, exhorting each of her sons, over-persuaded them from transgressing the commandment of God.
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And they saw this, too, that they who die for God, live to God; as Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the patriarchs.