4 Maccabees 13:6-8

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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, ⁷ so the seven-towered right reason of the youths, by fortifying the harbor of piety, conquered the tempest of the passions.^{(A) 8} For they constituted a holy chorus of piety and emboldened one another, saying,