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IV Maccabees 2:15
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And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander.
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And think it not a strange assertion that reasoning can in behalf of the law conquer even enmity.
14
It alloweth not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserveth it from the destroyers, and collecteth their fallen ruins.
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And reason appears to be master of the more violent passions, as love of empire and empty boasting, and slander.
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For the temperate understanding repels all these malignant passions, as it does wrath: for it masters even this.
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Thus Moses, when angered against Dathan and Abiram, did nothing to them in wrath, but regulated his anger by reasoning.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.