25. For just as in a council-room, beholding in her own soul vehement counselors, nature and parentage and love of her children, and the racking of her children,
26. she holding two votes, one for the death, the other for the preservation of her children,
27. did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space.
28. But this daughter of Abraham remembered his holy fortitude.
29. O holy mother of a nation avenger of the law, and defender of religion, and prime bearer in the battle of the affections!
30. O you nobler in endurance than males, and more manly than men in perseverance!
31. For as the ark of Noah, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves,
32. so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of passions, and straitened by violent storms which were the torments of they children, did bear up nobly against the storms against religion.