10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the emotions, Eleazar! (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:10
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4 Maccabees 7:1–2
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 16:13–15
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, soldier of God for religion, you, aged and a female, have conquered through endura… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:13–15
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Sirach 48:3–5
3 By the word of the Lord he shut up the heavens. He brought down fire three times. (WEB) 4 How you were glorified, O Elijah, in your wondrous deeds! Whose glory is like yours? (WEB) 5 You raised up a dead man from death, from Hades, by the word of the Most High. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:4–6
4 No besieged city has ever held out against many and various war machines as that holy man did when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings and moved his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him. (WEB) 5 For father Elea… (WEB)
3 Maccabees 6:1–2
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Greek Esther 13:10–12
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4 Maccabees 7:14–16
14 By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed rack. (WEB) 15 O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected. (WEB) 16 If, then, an old man, through religion, desp… (WEB)
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