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Septuagint, 4 Maccabees, 13.3
nan But in fact it was not so. Instead, by reason, which is praised before God, they prevailed over their emotions.

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1. Septuagint, 4 Maccabees, 1.1-1.2, 1.7, 1.23, 1.30, 2.6-2.9, 6.35, 7.10, 13.1-13.2, 13.7, 15.23, 16.2, 16.12-16.13, 18.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 1.1. The subject that I am about to discuss is most philosophical, that is, whether devout reason is sovereign over the emotions. So it is right for me to advise you to pay earnest attention to philosophy. 1.2. For the subject is essential to everyone who is seeking knowledge, and in addition it includes the praise of the highest virtue -- I mean, of course, rational judgment. 1.7. I could prove to you from many and various examples that reason is domit over the emotions 1.23. Fear precedes pain and sorrow comes after. 1.30. 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. 2.6. 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. 2.8. Thus, as soon as a man adopts a way of life in accordance with the law, even though he is a lover of money, he is forced to act contrary to his natural ways and to lend without interest to the needy and to cancel the debt when the seventh year arrives. 2.9. If one is greedy, he is ruled by the law through his reason so that he neither gleans his harvest nor gathers the last grapes from the vineyard. In all other matters we can recognize that reason rules the emotions. 6.35. And I have proved not only that reason has mastered agonies, but also that it masters pleasures and in no respect yields to them. 7.10. O aged man, more powerful than tortures; O elder, fiercer than fire; O supreme king over the passions, Eleazar! 13.2. For if they had been slaves to their emotions and had eaten defiling food, we would say that they had been conquered by these emotions. 13.7. o the seven-towered right reason of the youths, by fortifying the harbor of religion, conquered the tempest of the emotions. 15.23. But devout reason, giving her heart a man's courage in the very midst of her emotions, strengthened her to disregard her temporal love for her children. 16.2. Thus I have demonstrated not only that men have ruled over the emotions, but also that a woman has despised the fiercest tortures. 16.12. Yet the sacred 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 16.13. but, as though having a mind like adamant and giving rebirth for immortality to the whole number of her sons, she implored them and urged them on to death for the sake of religion. 18.2. knowing that devout reason is master of all emotions, not only of sufferings from within, but also of those from without.
2. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 3.10.6 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) 3.10.6. Another work of no little merit has been produced by the same writer, On the Supremacy of Reason, which some have called Maccabaicum, because it contains an account of the struggles of those Hebrews who contended manfully for the true religion, as is related in the books called Maccabees.
3. Anon., Letter of Aristeas, 190, 210, 225, 252, 255-256, 189 189. turn them from evil and lead them to repentance.' The king praised the answer and then asked the next man, How he could do everything for the best in all his actions? And he replied, 'If a man maintains a just bearing towards all, he will always act rightly on every occasion, remembering that every thought is known to God. If you take the fear of God as your starting-point, you will never miss the goal.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
anger	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
antiochus, power struggles of	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
aristotle, pain as an emotion	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
aristotle	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
deliberative genre	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
emotion, in the classical world	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
emotion, in the hebrew bible	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
epideictic genre	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
eusebius	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
fear, association with grief	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
gender, maternal emotions	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
god, of the jews	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
grief, power and	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
grief, relationship to fear	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
king	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
knowledge	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
law, jewish/of moses	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
martyrdom, emotions and	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
martyrs as gladiators, power-to and	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
mercy	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
moral / morality, values	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
pain, emotion and	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
passions	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
philosophy	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
philosophystoic	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
piety	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
reason	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143; Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
resistance, emotional	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
resistance, power-to and	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
rhetorical genres	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
social bonding	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
sophrosyne, in martyrdom	Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (2021) 37
symposium/symposia	Wright, The Letter of Aristeas: 'Aristeas to Philocrates' or 'On the Translation of the Law of the Jews' (2015) 396
values	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
virtue'	Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143