27 In the body, it is greediness, indiscriminate eating, and solitary gluttony. (WEB) 28 As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growths out of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these emotions. (WEB) 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)
4 Maccabees 1:27–29
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