4. Be of good cheer, therefore, O holy-minded mother! holding the firm substance of the hope of your steadfastness with God.
5. Not so gracious does the moon appear with the stars in heaven, as you are established honorable before God, and fixed in the firmament with your sons who you did illuminate with religion to the stars.
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.