4 Maccabees 6:29-31

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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.^(A)

³¹ Admittedly, then, pious reason is sovereign over the passions.