20 For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have said this. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 2:20
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4 Maccabees 3:4–6
4 Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice. (WEB) 5 For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the emotions. (WEB) 6 This may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of King… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:5–7
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4 Maccabees 13:2–4
2 For just as if they had eaten of the unholy as slaves to the emotions, we would have said that they had been conquered by them. (WEB) 3 Now it is not so. But by means of the reasoning which is praised by God, they mastered their emotions. (WEB) 4 It is impossible to overlook t… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:29–31
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4 Maccabees 2:15–17
15 Reason appears to be master of the more violent emotions, like love of empire, empty boasting, and slander. (WEB) 16 For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant emotions, as it does wrath; for it masters even this. (WEB) 17 Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 3:1–2
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4 Maccabees 7:19–21
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4 Maccabees 3:16–18
16 Therefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the drink to God. (WEB) 17 For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the emotions, to quench the fires of excitement, (WEB) 18 and to wrestle down the pains of the body, however excessiv… (WEB)
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