Holy Scripture

4 Maccabees 1:17

Source: Septuagint

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17And this is contained in the education of the law; by means of which we learn divine things reverently, and human things profitably.

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15Reasoning is, then, intellect accompanied by a life of rectitude, putting foremost the consideration of wisdom.

16And wisdom is a knowledge of divine and human things, and of their causes.

4 Maccabees 1:17

18And the forms of wisdom are prudence, and justice, and manliness, and temperance.

19The leading one of these is prudence; by whose means, indeed, it is that reasoning bears rule over the passions.

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