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IV Maccabees 7:20
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This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:
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But they who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the passions of the flesh;
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they who believe that to God they die not; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, they live to God.
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This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:
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since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,
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and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.