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Read›4 Maccabees›Chapter 7
In 2 translations
- WEB
- If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, then certainly religious reasoning is ruler of the emotions.
- LXXE
- If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Εἰ δὲ τοίνυν γέρων τῶν μέχρι θανάτου βασάνων περιεφρόνησεν διʼ εὐσέβειαν, ὁμολογουμένως ἡγεμών ἐστιν τῶν παθῶν ὁ εὐσεβὴς λογισμός.