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4 Maccabees 1:29-31
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
4 Maccabees 1:29-31
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
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 judgement is sovereign over the emotions by virtue of the restraining power of self-control. 31 Self-control, then, is dominance over the desires.
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