4 Maccabees 14:1

1 Furthermore, they encouraged them to face the torture, so that they not only despised their agonies, but also mastered the emotions of brotherly love.

4 Maccabees 14:1 In-Context

1 Furthermore, they encouraged them to face the torture, so that they not only despised their agonies, but also mastered the emotions of brotherly love.

2 O reason, more royal than kings and freer than the free!

3 O sacred and harmonious concord of the seven brothers on behalf of religion!

4 None of the seven youths proved coward or shrank from death,

5 but all of them, as though running the course toward immortality, hastened to death by torture.