1 If, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children’s torments even to death, it must be admitted that religious reasoning is master even of the emotions. (WEB) 2 I have proved, then, that not only men have obtained the mastery of their emotions, but also that a woman despised the greatest torments. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:1–2
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4 Maccabees 14:10–12
10 What could be more painful? For the power of fire, being sharp and quick, speedily dissolved their bodies. (WEB) 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 t… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:15–17
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4 Maccabees 1:8–10
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4 Maccabees 16:12–14
12 Nor did she divert any of them from death, nor grieve for them as for the dead. (WEB) 13 But as one possessed with an adamant mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather urged them to death on behalf of religion. (WEB) 14 O woman, sol… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:10–12
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4 Maccabees 17:6–8
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4 Maccabees 7:23–25
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 religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures; (WEB) 25 for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 13:1–2
1 If then, the seven kindred despised troubles even to death, it is admitted on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the emotions. (WEB) 2 For just as if they had eaten of the unholy as slaves to the emotions, we would have said that they had been… (WEB)
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