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For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbours men break the threatening waves, and thus assure a still course to vessels entering port,
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so that seven-towered right-reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the intermperance of passions.
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For having arranged a holy choir of piety, they encouraged one another, saying,
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Brothers, may we die brotherly for the law. Let us imitate the three young men in Assyria who despised the equally afflicting furnace.
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Let us not be cowards in the manifestation of piety.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.