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4 Maccabees 2:5-7
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
4 Maccabees 2:5-7
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
5 Thus the law says, ‘You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife or anything that is your neighbour’s.’ 6 In fact, since the law has told us not to covet, I could prove to you all the more that reason is able to control desires.
Just so it is with the emotions that hinder one from justice. 7 Otherwise how could it be that someone who is habitually a solitary gormandizer, a glutton, or even a drunkard can learn a better way, unless reason is clearly lord of the emotions?
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