4 Maccabees 13:4-6

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⁴ The supremacy of the mind over these cannot be overlooked, for the brothers^[a] mastered both passions and pains. ⁵ How, then, can one fail to confess the sovereignty of right reason over passion in those who were not turned back by fiery agonies?^{(A) 6} For just as towers jutting out over harbors hold back the threatening waves and make it calm for those who sail into the inner basin,