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But as many as attend to religion with a whole heart, these alone are able to control the passions of the flesh,
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since they believe that they, like our patriarchs Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, do not die to God, but live to God.
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No contradiction therefore arises when some persons appear to be dominated by their emotions because of the weakness of their reason.
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What person who lives as a philosopher by the whole rule of philosophy, and trusts in God,
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and knows that it is blessed to endure any suffering for the sake of virtue, would not be able to overcome the emotions through godliness?
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