4 Maccabees 6:29-31

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁹ Make my blood their purification, and take my life in exchange for theirs.’ ³⁰ After he said this, the holy man died nobly in his tortures; even in the tortures of death he resisted, by virtue of reason, for the sake of the law.

³¹ Admittedly, then, devout reason is sovereign over the emotions.