4 Maccabees 1:29
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
And reasoning, the universal husbandman, purging, and pruning these severally, and binding round, and watering, and transplanting, in every way improves the materials of the morals and affections.
Greek · Brenton
Ὧν ἕκαστος ὁ πανγέωργος λογισμὸς περικαθαίρων τε καὶ ἀποκνίζων, καὶ περιπλέκων, καὶ ἐπάρδων, καὶ πάντα τρόπον μεταχέων, ἐξημεροῖ τὰς τῶν ἠθῶν καὶ παθῶν ὕλας.