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4 Maccabees 1:28-30
Revised Standard Version
4 Maccabees 1:28-30
Revised Standard Version
28 Just as pleasure and pain are two plants growing from the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these plants,[a] 29 each of which the master cultivator, reason, weeds and prunes and ties up and waters and thoroughly irrigates, and so tames the jungle of habits and emotions. 30 For reason is the guide of the virtues, but over the emotions it is sovereign.
Observe now first of all that rational judgment is sovereign over the emotions by virtue of the restraining power of self-control.
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- 4 Maccabees 1:28 Other ancient authorities read these emotions
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