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)
4 Maccabees 1:4
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4 Maccabees 2:15–17
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… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:29–31
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. O… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:18–20
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 a… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 1:34–35
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 unde… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 5:22–24
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4 Maccabees 1:23–25
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4 Maccabees 3:17–19
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 excessive, and through the excellency of reasoning, to spurn all the assaults of the emotions. (WEB) 19 But th… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 2:5–7
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