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4 Maccabees 3:18-20
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 3:18-20
Revised Standard Version
18 it can overthrow bodily agonies even when they are extreme, and by nobility of reason spurn all domination by the emotions.
An Attempt on the Temple Treasury
19 The present occasion now invites us to a narrative demonstration of temperate reason.
20 At a time when our fathers were enjoying profound peace because of their observance of the law and were prospering, so that even Seleu′cus Nica′nor, king of Asia, had both appropriated money to them for the temple service and recognized their commonwealth—
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