4 Maccabees 14:7-9

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⁷ O most holy seven, brothers in harmony! For just as the seven days of creation move in choral dance around piety, ⁸ so these youths, forming a chorus of seven,^[a] encircled the fear of tortures and dissolved it. ⁹ Even now, we ourselves shudder as we hear of the suffering of these young men; they not only saw what was happening, not only heard the direct word of threat, but also bore the sufferings steadfastly, and in agonies of fire at that.