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share: attributiongreekSource: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 17; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
Attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
The text
24 lines · a line number is a link to itself| ref | L0 witness |
|---|---|
| 17:1 | ἔλεγον δὲ καὶ τῶν ορυφόρων τινές ὡς ὅτε ἔμελλεν καὶ αὐτὴ συλλαμβάνεσθαι πρὸς θάνατον, ἵνα μὴ ψαύσειέν τι τοῦ σώματος αὐτῆς, ἑαυτὴν ἔρριψεν κατὰ τῆς πυρᾶς. |
| 17:2 | Ὦ μήτηρ σίν ἑπτὰ παισὶν καταλύσασα τὴν τοῦ τυράννου βίαν, καὶ ἀκυρώσασα τὰς κακὰς ἐπινοίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπιδείξασα τὴν τῆς πίστεως γενναιότητα. |
| 17:3 | καθάπερ γὰρ σὺ στέγη ἐπὶ τοῦ στύλου τῶν παίδων γενναίως ἱδρυμένη, ἀκλινῶς ὑπήνεγκας τὸν διὰ τῶν βασάνων σεισμόν. |
| 17:4 | θάρρει τοιγαροῖν, ὁ μήτηρ ἱερόψυχε. τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς ὑπομονῆς γενναίως ἔχουσα πρὸς θεόν. |
| 17:5 | οὐχ οὕτω σελήνη κατʼ οὐρανὸν σὺν ἄστροις σεμνὴ καθέστηκεν, ὡς σὺ τοὺς ἰσαστέρους ἑπτὰ παῖδας φωταγωγήσασα πρὸς τὴν εὐσέβειαν ἔντιμος καθέστηκας θεῷ, καὶ ἐστήρισαι ἐν οὐρανῷ σὺν αὐτοῖς. |
| 17:6 | ἦν γὰρ ἡ παιδοποιία σου ἀπὸ Ἀβραὰμ τοῦ παιδός. |
| 17:7 | Εἰ δὲ ἐξὸν ἡμῖν ἤν, ὥσπερ τινός, ζωγραφῆσαι τὴν τῆς ἱστορίας σου εὐσέβειαν, οὐκ ἂν ἔφριττον οἱ θεωροῦντες μητέρα ἑπτὰ τέκνων δι᾿ εὺσέβειαν ποικίλας βασάνους μέχρι θανάτου ὑπομείνασαν; |
| 17:8 | καὶ γὰρ ἄξιον ἦν καὶ ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐπιταφίου ἀναγράψαι καὶ ταῦτα τοῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνους εἰς μνείαν λεγόμενα |
| 17:9 | Ἐνταῦθα φέρων ἱερεύU+03F2, καὶ φυνὴ φεραιά, καὶ ἑπτὰ παῖδεU+03F2 ἐνκεκήδευνται διὰ τυράννου βίδν, τὴν Ἐβρδίων πολιτίαν καταλῦU+03F2αι θέλοντοU+03F2. |
| 17:10 | οἳ καὶ ἐξεδίκηU+03F2αν τὸ ἔθνοU+03F2 εἰU+03F2 θεὸν ἀφορῶντεU+03F2, καὶ μέχρι θανάτου τὰU+03F2 βαU+03F2άνουU+03F2 ὑπομίναντεU+03F2. |
| 17:11 | ἀληθῶς γὰρ ἦν ἀγὼν θεῖος ὁ δι᾿ αὐτῶν γεγενημένος. |
| 17:12 | θλοθέτει γὰρ τότε ἀρετὴ δι᾿ ὑπομονῆς δοκιμάζουσ· τὀ νῖκος ἐν ἀφθαρσίᾳ ἐν ζωῇ πολυχρονίῳ. |
| 17:13 | Ἐλεαζαρ δἑ προηγωνί ζετο· ἡ δέ μήτηρ τῶν ἑπτὰ παίδων ἐνήθλει· οἱ δὲ ἀδελφοὶ ἠγωνίζοντο· |
| 17:14 | ὁ τύραννος ἀντηγωνίζετο· ὁ δέ κόσμος καὶ ὁ τῶν ἀνθρώπων βίος ἐθεώρει· |
| 17:15 | θεοσέβεια δέ ἐνίκα, τοὺς ἑαυτῆς ἀθλητὰς στεφανοῦσα. |
| 17:16 | τίνες οὐκ ἐθαύμασαν τοὺς τ ῆς ἀληθείας νομοθεσίας ἀθλητάς ; τίνες οὐκ ἐξεπλάγησαν |
| 17:17 | Αὺτός γέ τοι ὁ τύραννος καὶ ὅλον τὸ συνέδριον αὐτῶν ἐξεθαύμασαν αὐτῶν τὴν ὑπομονήν, |
| 17:18 | ὄι ἣν καὶ τῷ θείῳ νῦν παρεστήκασιν θρόνῳ, καὶ τὸν μακάριον βιοῦσιν αἰῶνα· |
| 17:19 | καὶ γάρ φησιν ὁ Μωσ ῆς Καὶ πάντες οἱ ἡγιασμένοι ὑπὸ τὰς χεῖράς σου. |
| 17:20 | καὶ οὐτοι οὗν ἁγιασθέντες διὰ θεὸν τετίμηνται οὐ μόνον οὗν ταύτῃ τῇ τιμῇ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῷ δι᾿ αὐτοὺς τὸ ἔθνος ἡμῶν τοὺς πολεμίους μὴ ἐπικρατῆσαι, |
| 17:21 | καὶ τὸν τύραννον τιμωρηθῆναι καὶ τὴν πατρίδα καθαρισθῆναι· |
| 17:22 | ὧσπερ ἀντίψυχον γεγονότας τῆς τοῦ ἔθνους ἁμαρτίας καὶ διὰ τοῦ αἵματος τῶν εὐσεβῶν ἐκείνων καὶ τοῦ ἱλαστηρίου θανάτου αὐτῶν, ἡ θεία πρόνοια τὸν Ἰσραὴλ προκακωθέντα διέσωσεν. |
| 17:23 | πρὸς γὰρ τὴν ἀνδρίαν αὐτῶν τῆς ἀρετῆς καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ ταῖς βασάνοις αὐτῶν ὑπομονὴν ὁ τύραννος ἀφιδὼν Ἀντίοχος ἀνεκήρυξεν τοῖς στρατιώταις αὐτοῦ εἰς ὑπόδιγμα τὴν ἐκείνων ὑπομονὴν· |
| 17:24 | ἔσχεν τε αὐτοὺς γενναίους καὶ ἀνδρείους εἰς πεζομαχίαν καὶ πολιορκίnν· καὶ ἐκπορθήσας ἐνίκησεν πάντας τοὺς πολεμίους. |
Provenance
- title
- IV Maccabees 17 (Greek, Swete)
- dialect
- greek
- source
- Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 17; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
- licence
- CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
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- attribution
- Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
- file
- Bible/Old Testament/IV Maccabees/17.greek.swete.L0.txt
L0 witness
Cite as:
IV Maccabees 17 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; IV Maccabees 17; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/iv-maccabees/17.greek.swete/. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
What the layers are
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.