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)
4 Maccabees 3:4
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4 Maccabees 2:12–14
12 It lords it over the love of parents toward their children, for they punish them for vice. It domineers over the intimacy of friends, reproving them when wicked. (WEB) 13 Don’t think it is a strange assertion that reasoning can on behalf of the law conquer even enmity. (WEB) 14 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:16–18
16 If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, then certainly religious reasoning is ruler of the emotions. (WEB) 17 But perhaps some might say, “It is not all who conquer emotions, as not all possess wise reasoning.” (WEB) 18 But those who have meditat… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 2:19–21
19 For why else did our most wise father Jacob blame Simeon and Levi for having irrationally slain the whole race of the Shechemites, saying, “Cursed be their anger!”? (WEB) 20 For if reasoning didn’t possess the power of subduing angry affections, he would not have said… (WEB) 21 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 2:3–5
3 For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he nullified by reasoning the stimulus of his emotions. (WEB) 4 It isn’t merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master. (WEB) 5 For instance, the law says, “You shall… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:5–7
5 Perhaps some may ask, “How is it, then, that reasoning, if it rules the emotions, isn’t also master of forgetfulness and ignorance?” They attempt a ridiculous argument. (WEB) 6 For reasoning does not rule over its own emotions, but over those that are contrary to just… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:33–35
33 But now, since reasoning conquered the emotions, we befittingly award it the authority of first place. (WEB) 34 It is only fair that we should allow that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries. (WEB) 35 It would be ridiculous if it weren’t so. I prove… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:15–17
15 for great is the trial of soul and danger of eternal torment laid up for those who transgress the commandment of God. (WEB) 16 Let’s arm ourselves, therefore, in the self-control, which is divine reasoning. (WEB) 17 If we suffer like this, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will receive… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:1–2
1 If then, the seven kindred despised troubles even to death, it is admitted on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the emotions. (WEB) 2 For just as if they had eaten of the unholy as slaves to the emotions, we would have said that they had been… (WEB)
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