Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 7:22
Source: Septuagint
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22and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his passion?
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20This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:
21since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God,
— 4 Maccabees 7:22 —
23For the wise and brave man only is lord over his passions.
24Whence it is, that even boys, imbued with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures: