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 meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the emotions of the flesh: (WEB) 19 they who believe that to God they don’t die; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they live to God. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:17–19
Semantically similar passages
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 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)
4 Maccabees 1:6–8
6 For reasoning does not rule over its own emotions, but over those that are contrary to justice, courage, temperance, and self-control; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them. (WEB) 7 I might prove to you from many other considerations, that re… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:22–24
22 and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his emotion? (WEB) 23 For only the wise and brave man is lord over his emotions. (WEB) 24 This is why even boys, trained with the philosophy of religio… (WEB)
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 3:1–3
1 The argument is exceedingly ridiculous, for reasoning doesn’t appear to rule over its own affections, but over those of the body, (WEB) 2 in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to… (WEB) 3 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 2:17–19
17 Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning. (WEB) 18 For the temperate mind is able, as I said, to be superior to the emotions, and to correct some and destroy others. (WEB) 19 For why else did our most… (WEB)
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)
Search the collection All books and codes Translations and sources