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The mother of the seven boys, more than any other mother, loved her children. In seven pregnancies she had implanted in herself tender love toward them,
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and because of the many pains she suffered with each of them she had sympathy for them;
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yet because of the fear of God she disdained the temporary safety of her children.
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Not only so, but also because of the nobility of her sons and their ready obedience to the law, she felt a greater tenderness toward them.
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For they were righteous and self-controlled and brave and magnanimous, and loved their brothers and their mother, so that they obeyed her even to death in keeping the ordinances.