4 Maccabees 13:4-6

Revised Standard Version

⁴ The supremacy of the mind over these cannot be overlooked, for the brothers^[a] mastered both emotions and pains. ⁵ How then can one fail to confess the sovereignty of right reason over emotion in those who were not turned back by fiery agonies? 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,