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4 Maccabees 3
4 Maccabees 3:1-7
4 Maccabees 3
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4 Maccabees 3:1-7
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This notion is entirely ridiculous; for it is evident that reason rules not over its own emotions, but over those of the body.
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No one of us can eradicate that kind of desire, but reason can provide a way for us not to be enslaved by desire.
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No one of us can eradicate anger from the mind, but reason can help to deal with anger.
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No one of us can eradicate malice, but reason can fight at our side so that we are not overcome by malice.
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For reason does not uproot the emotions but is their antagonist.
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Now this can be explained more clearly by the story of King David's thirst.
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David had been attacking the Philistines all day long, and together with the soldiers of his nation had slain many of them.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.