4 Maccabees 2:14-16
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14 Do not consider it paradoxical when reason, through the law, can prevail even over enmity. The fruit trees of the enemy are not cut down, but one preserves the property of enemies from the destroyers and helps raise up what has fallen.[a]
15 It is evident that reason rules even[b] the more violent emotions: lust for power, vainglory, boasting, arrogance, and malice. 16 For the temperate mind repels all these malicious emotions, just as it repels anger—for it is sovereign over even this.
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- 4 Maccabees 2:14 Or the beasts that have fallen (Ex 23.4–5 LXX)
- 4 Maccabees 2:15 Other ancient authorities read through
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