4 Maccabees 7:1
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,
Greek · Brenton
Ὥσπερ καὶ ἄριστος κυβερνήτης ὁ τοῦ πατρὸς ἡμῶν Ἐλεαζάρου λογισμὸς, πηδαλιουεχῶν τὴν τῆς εὐσεβείας ναῦν ἐν τῷ τῶν παθῶν πελάγει,