4 Maccabees Chapter 3: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ The argument is exceedingly ridiculous, for reasoning doesn’t appear to rule over its own affections, but over those of the body, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to it. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent you yielding to malice. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ For reasoning is not an eradicator, but an antagonist of the emotions. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ This may be more clearly comprehended from the thirst of King David. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ For after David had been attacking the Philistines the whole day, he with the soldiers of his nation killed many of them; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ then when evening came, sweating and very weary, he came to the royal tent, around which the entire army of our ancestors was encamped. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ Now all the rest of them were at supper; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ but the king, being very much thirsty, although he had numerous springs, could not by their means quench his thirst; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy’s camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, undid and consumed him. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² Therefore his bodyguards being troubled at this longing of the king, two valiant young soldiers, respecting the desire of the king, fully armed themselves, and taking a pitcher, got over the ramparts of the enemies. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ Unperceived by the guardians of the gate, they went throughout the whole camp of the enemy in quest. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ Having boldly discovered the fountain, they filled out of it the drink for the king. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ But he, though parched with thirst, reasoned that a drink regarded of equal value to blood would be terribly dangerous to his soul. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ Therefore, setting up reasoning in opposition to his desire, he poured out the drink to God. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ For the temperate mind has power to conquer the pressure of the emotions, to quench the fires of excitement, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ and to wrestle down the pains of the body, however excessive, and through the excellency of reasoning, to spurn all the assaults of the emotions. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ But the occasion now invites us to give an illustration of temperate reasoning from history. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ For at a time when our fathers were in possession of undisturbed peace through obedience to the law and were prosperous, so that Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia, both assigned them money for divine service, and accepted their form of government, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ then certain people, bringing in new things contrary to the public harmony, in various ways fell into calamities. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)