1 The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of emotions, (WEB) 2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:1–2
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4 Maccabees 6:29–31
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