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4 Maccabees 3:16-18
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
4 Maccabees 3:16-18
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
16 Therefore, opposing reason to desire, he poured out the drink as an offering to God. 17 For the temperate mind can conquer the drives of the emotions and quench the flames of frenzied desires; 18 it can overthrow bodily agonies even when they are extreme, and by nobility of reason spurn all domination by the emotions.
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