it is also clear that it masters the passions that hinder one from justice, such as malice, and those that stand in the way of courage, namely, anger, fear, and pain.

Fear precedes pain, and sorrow comes after.

But David, though he was burning with thirst, considered it an altogether fearful danger to his soul to drink what was regarded as equivalent to blood.

and while Apollonius was going up with his armed forces to seize the money, angels on horseback with lightning flashing from their weapons appeared from heaven, instilling in them great fear and trembling.

My ancestors will receive me as pure, as one who does not fear your violence even to death.

When he had said these things, he ordered the instruments of torture to be brought forward so as to persuade them out of fear to eat the defiling food.

O men and brothers, should we not fear the instruments of torture and consider the threats of torments and give up this vanity and this arrogance that threatens to destroy us?

Also, divine justice will excuse us for fearing the king when we are under compulsion.

Not even the law itself would consent to put us to death for fearing the instruments of torture.

Let us not fear him who thinks he is killing us,

so these youths, forming a chorus of seven, encircled the fear of tortures and dissolved it.

yet because of the fear of God she disdained the temporary safety of her children.

but as the daughter of God-fearing Abraham she remembered his fortitude.

Yet that holy and God-fearing mother did not wail with such a lament for any of them, nor did she dissuade any of them from dying, nor did she grieve as they were dying.