Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 2:1
Source: Septuagint
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1And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,
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— 4 Maccabees 2:1 —
2on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he subdued, on reflection, the indulgence of sense.
3For, although young, and ripe for sexual intercourse, he abrogated by reasoning the stimulus of his passions.