6 For your bearing of children was after the fashion of a child of Abraham.
7 And, were it lawful for us to paint as on a tablet the religion of your story, the spectators would not shudder at beholding the mother of seven children enduring for the sake of religion various tortures even to death.
8 And it had been a worth thing to have inscribed upon the tomb itself these words as a memorial to those of the nation,
9 Here an aged priest, and an aged woman, and seven sons, are buried through the violence of a tyrant, who wished to destroy the polity of the Hebrews.
10 These also avenged their nation, looking to God, and enduring torments to death.
11 For it was truly a divine contest which was carried through by them.
12 For at that time virtue presided over the contest, approving the victory through endurance, namely, immortality, eternal life.