4 Maccabees Chapter 7: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of emotions, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with the breakers of torture, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ in no way shifted the rudder of piety until it sailed into the harbor of victory over death. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ No besieged city has ever held out against many and various war machines as that holy man did when his pious soul was tried with the fiery trial of tortures and rackings and moved his besiegers through the religious reasoning that shielded him. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ For father Eleazar, projecting his disposition, broke the raging waves of the emotions as with a jutting cliff. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ O priest worthy of the priesthood! You didn’t pollute your sacred teeth, nor make your appetite, which had always embraced the clean and lawful, a partaker of profanity. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ O harmonizer with the law, and sage devoted to a divine life! (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ Of such a character ought those to be who perform the duties of the law at the risk of their own blood, and defend it with generous sweat by sufferings even to death. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ You, father, have gloriously established our right government by your endurance; and making of much account our past service, prevented its destruction, and by your deeds, have made credible the words of philosophy. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ O aged man of more power than tortures, elder more vigorous than fire, greatest king over the emotions, Eleazar! (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ For as father Aaron, armed with a censer, hastening through the consuming fire, vanquished the flame-bearing angel, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² so, Eleazar, the descendant of Aaron, wasted away by the fire, didn’t give up his reasoning. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ What is most wonderful is that though he was an old man, though the labors of his body were now spent, his muscles were relaxed, and his sinews worn out, he recovered youth. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ By the spirit of reasoning, and the reasoning of Isaac, he rendered powerless the many-headed rack. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ O blessed old age, and reverend hoar head, and life obedient to the law, which the faithful seal of death perfected. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ If, then, an old man, through religion, despised tortures even to death, then certainly religious reasoning is ruler of the emotions. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ But perhaps some might say, “It is not all who conquer emotions, as not all possess wise reasoning.” (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ But those who have meditated upon religion with their whole heart, these alone can master the emotions of the flesh: (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ they who believe that to God they don’t die; for, as our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they live to God. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning are governed by their emotions, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ since what person, walking religiously by the whole rule of philosophy, and believing in God, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² and knowing that it is a blessed thing to endure all kinds of hardships for virtue, would not, for the sake of religion, master his emotion? (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ For only the wise and brave man is lord over his emotions. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ This is why even boys, trained with the philosophy of religious reasoning, have conquered still more bitter tortures; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ for when the tyrant was manifestly vanquished in his first attempt, in being unable to force the old man to eat the unclean thing, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)