4 Maccabees

Old Testament · 18 chapters · 486 verses

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• 4 Maccabees 1 · 35 versesAs I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute master of the passions, I would willingly…
• 4 Maccabees 2 · 24 versesAnd what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated,
• 4 Maccabees 3 · 21 versesThe argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, but over those of the body,
• 4 Maccabees 4 · 26 versesFor a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honorable and good man, after…
• 4 Maccabees 5 · 38 versesThe tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle…
• 4 Maccabees 6 · 35 versesWhen Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of…
• 4 Maccabees 7 · 25 versesThe reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,
• 4 Maccabees 8 · 27 versesThen, indeed, vehemently swayed with passion, he commanded to bring others of the adult Hebrews, and if they would eat of the unclean thing, to let…
• 4 Maccabees 9 · 32 versesWhy delay you, O tyrant? for we are readier to die than to transgress the injunctions of our fathers.
• 4 Maccabees 10 · 22 versesNow this one, having endured this praiseworthy death, the third was brought along, and exhorted by many to taste and save his life.
• 4 Maccabees 11 · 29 versesAnd when he had died, disfigured in his torments, the fifth leaped forward, and said,
• 4 Maccabees 12 · 20 versesWhen he, too, had undergone blessed martyrdom, and died in the caldron into which he had been thrown, the seventh, the youngest of all, came forward:
• 4 Maccabees 13 · 27 versesIf then, the seven brethren despised troubles even to death, it is confessed on all sides that righteous reasoning is absolute master over the…
• 4 Maccabees 14 · 20 versesAnd more that this, they even urged them on to this ill-treatment; so that they not only despised pains themselves, but they even got the better of…
• 4 Maccabees 15 · 32 versesO reasoning of the sons, lord over the passions, and religion more desirable to a mother than progeny!
• 4 Maccabees 16 · 25 versesIf, then, even a woman, and that an aged one, and the mother of seven children, endured to see her children's torments even to death, confessedly…
• 4 Maccabees 17 · 24 versesAnd some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the…
• 4 Maccabees 18 · 24 versesO Israelitish children, descendants of the seed of Abraham, obey this law, and in every way be religious.