The Fourth Book of the Maccabees

As I am going to demonstrate a most philosophical proposition, namely, that religious reasoning is absolute ma...

And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated, on this...

The argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, bu...

For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and...

The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with h...

The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passi...