5 For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the emotions as with a jutting cliff. (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:5
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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 6:15–17
15 We will bring you some meat cooked by yourself, and you can save yourself by pretending that you have eaten swine’s flesh.” (WEB) 16 Eleazar, as though the advice more painfully tortured him, cried out, (WEB) 17 “Let us who are children of Abraham not be so evil advised as by gi… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:9–11
9 You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our past service, prevented its destruction, and by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy. (WEB) 10 O aged man of more power than tortures, elde… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 16:3–5
3 The lions around Daniel were not so fierce, nor the furnace of Misael burning with most vehement fires as that natural love of children burned within her, when she saw her seven sons tortured. (WEB) 4 But with the reasoning of religion the mother quenched emotions so… (WEB) 5 … (WEB)
4 Maccabees 6:4–6
4 A herald opposite cried out, “Obey the commands of the king!” (WEB) 5 But the high-minded and truly noble Eleazar, as one tortured in a dream, ignored it. (WEB) 6 But raising his eyes on high to heaven, the old man’s flesh was stripped off by the scourges, and his blood stream… (WEB)
4 Maccabees 15:31–32
31 For like Noah’s ship, bearing the world in the world-filling flood, bore up against the waves, (WEB) 32 so you, the guardian of the law, when surrounded on every side by the flood of emotions, and assaulted by violent storms which were the torments of your children, bo… (WEB)
Psalms 107:25–27
25 For He spoke and raised a tempest that lifted the waves of the sea. 26 They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish. 27 They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.
2 Maccabees 3:15–17
15 The priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priestly garments, and called toward heaven upon him who gave the law concerning deposits, that he should preserve these treasures safe for those who had deposited them. (WEB) 16 Whoever saw the appearance o… (WEB)
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