Holy Scripture
4 Maccabees 7:3
Source: Septuagint
Original
3in no way shifted the rudder of piety till it sailed into the harbor of victory over death.
Modern
Preparing…
Teens
Preparing…
Kids
Preparing…
In context
1The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,
2and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture,
— 4 Maccabees 7:3 —
4Not so has ever a city, when besieged, held out against many and various machines, as did that holy man, when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings, move his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him.
5For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory.