It may be so, more likely, it is an appeal to the merits of the three.
Versions here are mv.
Through it may the just providence for our ancestors become merciful to our race. Said by first of the seven brothers, speaking to the others. And through the blood of these pious ones and the propitiation of their death, the divine providence saved Israel, which had been badly treated. By the editor, commenting on the mother and 7 sons. There are some Christian interpolations, probably early 2nd cent.