1. And more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of their affections of brotherly love.
2. O reasonings more royal than a king, and freer than freemen!
3. Sacred and harmonious concert of the seven brethren as concerning piety!
4. None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.