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IV Maccabees 6:32
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For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.
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30
Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.
31
Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions.
32
For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.
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But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly awared it the authority of first place.
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And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.