5 For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the emotions as with a jutting cliff. (WEB) 6 O priest worthy of the priesthood! You didn’t pollute your sacred teeth, nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity. (WEB) 7 O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life! (WEB)
4 Maccabees 7:5–7
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4 Maccabees 7:1–2
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4 Maccabees 15:31–32
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4 Maccabees 5:34–36
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4 Maccabees 7:21–23
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4 Maccabees 7:14–16
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