4 Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice. (WEB) 5 For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the emotions. (WEB) 6 This may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of King David. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 3:4–6
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4 Maccabees 2:19–21
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… (WEB) 21 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 2:3–5
3 For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he nullified by reasoning the stimulus of his emotions. (WEB) 4 It isn’t merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master. (WEB) 5 For instance, the law says, “You shall… (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 7:16–18
16 If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, then certainly religious reasoning is ruler of the emotions. (WEB) 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 meditat… (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 1:29–31
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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)
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)
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