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7/10 · strong
1 AND now children, I you (sic) to keep the commands of the Lord, and to show mercy to your neighbours, and to have compassion towards all, not towards men only, but also towards beasts. (T12) 2 For all this thing's sake the Lord blessed me, and when all my brethren were sick, I escaped without sickness, for the Lord knoweth the purposes of each. (T12) 3 Have, therefore, compassion in your hearts, my children, because even as a man doeth to his neighbour, even so also will the Lord do to him. (T12)
4/10 · fair
11 Don’t think it wonderful that reasoning ruled over those men in their torments, when even a woman’s mind despised more manifold pains. (WEB) 12 For the mother of those seven youths endured the rackings of each of her children. (WEB) 13 Consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws every one to sympathy of affection, (WEB) 14 where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men. (WEB) 15 The tame birds frequenting the roofs of our houses defend their fledglings. (WEB) 16 Others build their nests and hatch their young on the tops of mountains, in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep intruders away. (WEB) 17 If not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able. (WEB) 18 But why should we point attention to the sympathy toward children shown by irrational animals? (WEB)
4/10 · fair
29 Reasoning, the universal farmer, purging and pruning each of these, tying up, watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections. (WEB) 30 For reasoning is the leader of the virtues, but it is the sole ruler of the emotions. Observe then first, through the very things which stand in the way of temperance, that reasoning is absolute ruler of the emotions. (WEB) 31 Now temperance consists of a command over the lusts. (WEB) 32 But of the lusts, some belong to the soul and others to the body. Reasoning appears to rule over both. (WEB) 33 Otherwise, how is it that when urged on to forbidden meats, we reject the gratification which would come from them? Isn’t it because reasoning is able to command the appetites? I believe so. (WEB) 34 Hence it is, then, that when craving seafood, birds, four-footed animals, and all kinds of food which are forbidden to us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning. (WEB) 35 For the affections of our appetites are resisted by the temperate understanding, and bent back again, and all the impulses of the body are reined in by reasoning. (WEB)
5/10 · good
16 Do you, therefore, my children, from that which God bestoweth upon you, show compassion and mercy without hesitation to all men, and give to every man with a good heart. (T12) 17 And if ye have not the wherewithal to give to him that needeth, have compassion for him in bowels of mercy. (T12) 18 I know that my hand found not the wherewithal to give to him that needed, and I walked with him weeping for seven furlongs, and my bowels yearned towards him in compassion. (T12) 19 Have, therefore, yourselves also, my children, compassion towards every man with mercy, that the Lord also may have compassion and mercy upon you. (T12) 20 Because also in, the last days God will send His compassion on the earth, and wheresoever He findeth bowels of mercy He dwelleth in him. (T12) 21 For in the degree in which a man hath compassion upon his neighbours, in the same degree hath the Lord also upon him. (T12) 22 And when we went down into Egypt, Joseph bore no malice against us. (T12) 23 To whom taking heed, do ye also, my children, approve yourselves without malice, and love one another; and do not set down in account, each one of you, evil against his brother. (T12)
4/10 · fair
5 But whoever kills beast without wounds, kills his own soul and defiles his own flesh. (2EN) 6 And he who does any beast any injury whatsoever, in secret, it is evil practice, and he defiles his own soul. (2EN)
4/10 · fair
13 Don’t think it is a strange assertion that reasoning can on behalf of the law conquer even enmity. (WEB) 14 It doesn’t allow cutting down the fruit trees of an enemy, but preserves them from the destroyers, and collects their fallen ruins. (WEB) 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 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 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 this. (WEB) 21 For at the time when God created man, he implanted within him his emotions and moral nature. (WEB) 22 At that time he enthroned the mind above all as the holy leader, through the medium of the senses. (WEB) 23 He gave a law to this mind, by living according to which it will maintain a temperate, just, good, and courageous reign. (WEB) 24 How, then, a man may say, if reasoning is master of the emotions, has it no control over forgetfulness and ignorance? (WEB)
3/10 · fair
12 He saw and perceived their end, that it is evil. Therefore he multiplied his forgiveness. (WEB) 13 The mercy of a man is on his neighbor; but the mercy of the Lord is on all flesh: reproving, chastening, teaching, and bringing back, as a shepherd does his flock. (WEB)
4/10 · fair
3 Let us be good one towards another according to the compassion and sweetness of Him that made us. For it is written: (1CL)
3/10 · fair
1 As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the emotions. I would willingly advise you to give the utmost heed to philosophy. (WEB) 2 For reason is necessary to everyone as a step to science. In addition, it embraces the praise of self-control, the highest virtue. (WEB) 3 If, then, reasoning appears to hold the mastery over the emotions which stand in the way of temperance, such as gluttony and lust, (WEB) 4 it surely also and manifestly rules over the affections which are contrary to justice, such as malice, and of those which are hindrances to courage, such as wrath, pain, and fear. (WEB) 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 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 religious reasoning is sole master of the emotions; (WEB) 8 but I will prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven kindred, and their mother, who suffered death in defense of virtue. (WEB) 9 For all these, treating pains with contempt even to death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the emotion… (WEB)
3/10 · fair
13 Therefore the question is whether reasoning is absolute master of the emotions. (WEB) 14 Let’s determine, then, what reasoning is and what emotion is, and how many forms of emotion there are, and whether reasoning rules over all of these. (WEB) 15 Reasoning is intellect accompanied by a life of righteousness, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom. (WEB) 16 Wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes. (WEB) 17 This is contained in the education of the law, by means of which we learn divine things reverently and human things profitably. (WEB) 18 The forms of wisdom are self-control, justice, courage, and temperance. (WEB) 19 The leading one of these is self-control, by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning rules over the emotions. (WEB) 20 Of the emotions, pleasure and pain are the two most comprehensive; and they also by nature refer to the soul. (WEB)