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but I shall prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven brethren, and their mother, who suffered death in defence of virtue.
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For reasoning does not rule over its own affections, but over such as are contrary to justice, and manliness and temperance, and prudence; and yet over these, so as to withstand, without destroying them.
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I might prove to you, from many other considerations, that religious reasoning is sole master of the passions;
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but I shall prove it with the greatest force from the fortitude of Eleazar, and seven brethren, and their mother, who suffered death in defence of virtue.
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For all these, contemning pains even unto death, by this contempt, demonstrated that reasoning has command over the passions.
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For their virtues, then, it is right that I should commend those men who died with their mother at this time in behalf of rectitude; and for their honours, I may count them happy.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.