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IV Maccabees 7:17
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But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.
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O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected.
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If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.
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But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.
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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.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.