Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 6:31
Source: Septuagint
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31Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions.
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29Let my blood be a purification for them, and take my life in recompense for theirs.
30Thus speaking, the holy man departed, noble in his torments, and even to the agonies of death resisted in his reasoning for the sake of the law.
— 4 Maccabees 6:31 —
32For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.
33But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly award it the authority of first place.