Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 6:32
Source: Septuagint
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32For had the passions been superior to reasoning, I would have given them the witness of this mastery.
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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.
31Confessedly, therefore, religious reasoning is master of the passions.
— 4 Maccabees 6:32 —
33But now, since reasoning conquered the passions, we befittingly award it the authority of first place.
34And it is but fair that we should allow, that the power belongs to reasoning, since it masters external miseries.