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4 Maccabees 7:1
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4 Maccabees 7:4–6
4 No besieged city has ever held out against many and various war machines as that holy man did when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings and moved his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him. (WEB) 5 For father Elea… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:9–11
9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our past service, prevented its destruction, and by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy. (WEB) 10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elde… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:6–8
6 For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbors men break the threatening waves, and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port, (WEB) 7 so that seven-towered right-reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the temp… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:30–32
30 Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law. (WEB) 31 Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the emotions. (WEB) 32 For had the emotions been superior to reasoni… (WEB)
3 Maccabees 6:1–2
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4 Maccabees 1:6–8
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4 Maccabees 18:1–3
1 O Israelite children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law and in every way be religious, (WEB) 2 knowing that religious reasoning is lord of the emotions, and those not only inward but outward. (WEB) 3 Therefore those people who gave up their bodies to pains for… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:15–17
15 O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected. (WEB) 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 perhap… (WEB)
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