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Septuagint, 4 Maccabees, 6.35


nanAnd I have proved not only that reason has mastered agonies, but also that it masters pleasures and in no respect yields to them.


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1. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 1.92 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.92. Did you think they were all out of their minds because they pronounced that god can exist without hands or feet? Does not even a consideration of the adaptation of man's limbs to their functions convince you that the gods do not require human limbs? What need is there for feet without walking, or for hands if nothing has to be grasped, or for the rest of the list of the various parts of the body, in which nothing is useless, nothing without a reason, nothing superfluous, so that no art can imitate the cunning of nature's handiwork? It seems then that god will have a tongue, and will not speak; teeth, a palate, a throat, for no use; the organs that nature has attached to the body for the purpose of procreation — these god will possess, but to no purpose; and not only the external but also the internal organs, the heart, lungs, liver and the rest, which if they are not useful are assuredly not beautiful — since your school holds that god possesses bodily parts because of their beauty.
2. Septuagint, 4 Maccabees, 1.1-1.2, 1.7, 1.30, 2.6-2.9, 5.22-5.23, 13.1-13.3, 13.7, 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 1.30. 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. 5.22. You scoff at our philosophy as though living by it were irrational 5.23. but it teaches us self-control, so that we master all pleasures and desires, and it also trains us in courage, so that we endure any suffering willingly; 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. 13.3. But in fact it was not so. Instead, by reason, which is praised before God, they prevailed over their emotions. 13.7. o the seven-towered right reason of the youths, by fortifying the harbor of religion, conquered the tempest of the emotions. 18.2. knowing that devout reason is master of all emotions, not only of sufferings from within, but also of those from without.
3. 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.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aristotle Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
cleobulus Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
defilement Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
deliberative genre Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
desires Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
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
faith Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
intemperance Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
knowledge Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
moderation Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
moral / morality, values Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
passions Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143; Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
piety Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
pleasures Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
power Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
praecepta delphica Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
reason Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
rhetorical genres Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
self-control Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
sex Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
sleep Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
social bonding Petersen and van Kooten, Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World: From Plato, through Jesus, to Late Antiquity (2017) 143
sound reasoning Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
the body' Wilson, The Sentences of Sextus (2012) 106
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