She fought effectively for the law of her ancestors, and because you were more fearing of God, and piety for the piety of Abraham opened the way.
2O woman who gave birth, nobler than the noble in patience, more courageous than men in perseverance!
3For like the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the waves of the flood, endured courageously.
4So also you, guardian of the law, assaulted on all sides by the flood of your passions and by the violent winds, the tortures of your sons, nobly endured the tempests for the cause of piety.
5If then a woman advanced in years, mother of seven sons, endured seeing her sons tortured to death, it is admitted that pious reason is absolutely sovereign.
6Thus I have demonstrated that not only men mastered their passions by reason, but also a woman despised the greatest tortures.
7And the lions around Daniel were not so fierce, nor the burning furnace of Mishael so hot.
8As nature burned in her while she saw her seven sons tortured in so many ways.
9But by pious reason she quenched all her so varied passions.
10Consider still that, if the woman were cowardly, she would have lamented her children and perhaps said the following.