2 Maccabees 7:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ After him they brought the sixth, and he being ready to die, spoke thus: Be not deceived without cause: for we suffer these things for ourselves, having sinned against our God, and things worthy of admiration are done to us:

¹⁹ But do not think that thou shalt escape unpunished, for that thou attempted to fight against God.

²⁰ Now the mother was to be admired above measure, and worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld seven sons slain in the space of one day, and bore it with a good courage, for the hope that she had in God: