4 Maccabees - Wikipedia
WEB4 Maccabees, also called the Fourth Book of Maccabees and possibly originally known as On the Sovereignty of Reason, is a book written in Koine Greek, likely in the 1st or early 2nd century. It is a homily or philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of pious reason over passion .
4 Maccabees 1 NRSVUE - (d) The following book appears in an - Bible Gateway
WEBObserve now, first of all, that rational judgment is sovereign over the passions by virtue of the restraining power of self-control. 31 Self-control, then, is dominance over the desires. 32 Some desires belong to the soul, others to the body, and reason obviously rules over both. 33 Otherwise, how is it that when we are attracted to forbidden fo...
4 Maccabees 1 CEB - The principle of clear thinking - I’m - Bible Gateway
WEBThe principle of clear thinking. 1 I’m about to prove a most important philosophical principle: godly thinking[ a] is supreme over emotions and desires. I would be giving you good advice then to pay close attention to philosophy. 2 This principle is essential for knowing what to do in every situation, and it also includes the praise of the ...
WEB4Maccabees1:19 iii 4Maccabees1:32 domareself-control, justice, courage, andtem-perance.19Theleadingoneoftheseisself-control, bywhosemeans,indeed ...
4 Maccabees NRSV - The subject that I am about… | Biblia
WEB1 The subject that I am about to discuss is most philosophical, that is, whether devout reason is sovereign over the emotions.
4 Maccabees 4 RSV - Now there was a certain Simon, a - Bible Gateway
WEB4 Now there was a certain Simon, a political opponent of the noble and good man, Oni′as, who then held the high priesthood for life. When despite all manner of slander he was unable to injure Oni′as in the eyes of the nation, he …
4 Maccabees - Early Jewish Writings
WEBMartin McNamara writes: "4 Maccabees is a philosophical treatise that could be entitled: 'On the Supremacy of Reason over the Emotions.' It opens with the words: 'The subject that I am about to discuss is most philosophical, that is, …
4 Maccabees - Wikisource, the free online library
WEBFeb 25, 2024 · 4 Maccabees is a book of the Septuagint, the Greek Jewish Scriptures. It is considered canonical in neither modern Christianity nor Judaism, but was used as scripture in Roman Empire-era Christianity, and is kept as …
The Books of the Maccabees | Definition, Contents, & Facts
WEBThe Fourth Book of the Maccabees. IV Maccabees has scanty historical information and belongs to the Maccabees series only because it deals with the beginning of the persecution of Jews by Antiochus IV Epiphanes. It possibly was written during the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula (37–41 ce ).
Martyred mother with seven sons (4MACC): Apocrypha
WEBWritten by a loyalist Jew living in at Antioch in Syria, 4 Maccabees is a retelling of the martyrology of 2 Maccabees in greater philosophical detail. 4 Maccabees praises the mother of the family of seven sons for her devotion to religious reason and …
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