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The Forgotten Books of Eden: Fourth Book of Maccabees: Chapter VIII

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The famous "Athletes of Righteousness." Here ends the story of courage called the Fourth Book of Maccabees. SOME of the guards declared that when she also was about to be seized and put to death, she cast herself on the pyre in order that no man might touch her body. 2 O mother, that together with thy seven sons didst break the tyrant's force, and bring to nought his evil devices, and gavest an example of the nobleness of faith.

The Forgotten Books of Eden: Fourth Book of Maccabees: Chapter VIII

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