4 Maccabees 7:16
Thomson 1808
not in this edition
Brenton 1851
If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even unto death, confessedly religious reasoning is ruler of the passions.
Greek · Brenton
Εἰ δὲ τοίνυν γέρων τῶν μέχρι θανάτου βασάνων περιεφρόνησεν διʼ εὐσέβειαν, ὁμολογουμένως ἡγεμών ἐστιν τῶν παθῶν ὁ εὐσεβὴς λογισμός.