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4 Maccabees

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Old Testament · Deuterocanon · 12 chapter studies · 12 narrated · Total audio: 7 hrs 35 min

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  1. Intro 4 Maccabees - Overview Publication quality Coptic Orthodox overview for teaching 4 Maccabees as a Septuagintal Maccabean martyr text and companion meditation on 2 Maccabees 6 7. 50 min read Narrated
  2. 1 4 Maccabees 1.1-12 - The thesis devout reason masters the passions 4 Maccabees opens with the thesis that devout reason masters the passions, then announces that the martyrs will prove it by faithful endurance. 16 min read Narrated
  3. 1-3 4 Maccabees 1.13-3.18 - Reason virtue Torah and the passions 4 Maccabees defines reason, wisdom, virtue, Law, desire, anger, fear, pain, and the disciplined struggle that resists enslavement to the passions. 24 min read Narrated
  4. 3-4 4 Maccabees 3.19-4.26 - Scriptural examples and the crisis under Antiochus 4 Maccabees turns from scriptural examples to the Antiochene crisis, showing how daily formation is tested by betrayal, temple threat, forced apostasy, and bodily coercion. 17 min read Narrated
  5. 5 4 Maccabees 5 - Eleazar's trial and holy refusal 4 Maccabees 5 brings Eleazar before Antiochus, where the elder priest refuses false mercy and teaches that obedience to God is stronger than coercion, pleasure, age, and fear. 19 min read Narrated
  6. 6-7 4 Maccabees 6-7 - Eleazar's witness death and priestly exhortation 4 Maccabees 6 7 shows Eleazar's endurance, final prayer, and priestly witness as the first proof that devout reason, formed by faith, can remain upright under pain and hope in God... 22 min read Narrated
  7. 8-9 4 Maccabees 8-9 - The seven brothers summoned and the first torments 4 Maccabees 8 9 begins the witness of the seven brothers, showing youthful courage, shared confession, and the first torments as a living proof that devout reason trained by the... 21 min read Narrated
  8. 10-12 4 Maccabees 10-12 - The brothers' confession under torture 4 Maccabees 10 12 continues the witness of the brothers, showing confession under torture, the soul's freedom before bodily suffering, and the youngest brother's final prayer for... 21 min read Narrated
  9. 13-14 4 Maccabees 13-14 - Brotherly love, courage, and the Law 4 Maccabees 13 14 reflects on the seven brothers as a holy choir of mutual exhortation, showing that brotherly love, natural affection, courage, and the Law can be purified into... 27 min read Narrated
  10. 15-16 4 Maccabees 15-16 - The mother, maternal courage, and spiritual warfare 4 Maccabees 15 16 presents the mother of the seven brothers as the fiercest test of the book's thesis: natural love is not erased, but purified by faith so that maternal affection... 31 min read Narrated
  11. 17 4 Maccabees 17 - Victory, immortality, and the martyrs' crowns 4 Maccabees 17 gathers the witness of Eleazar, the mother, and the seven brothers into the language of victory, crowns, immortality, and living before God, while requiring the... 27 min read Narrated
  12. 18 4 Maccabees 18 - Final exhortation, memory, and legacy 4 Maccabees 18 closes the book by turning martyr memory into obedience, showing how Scripture trained households, faithful recollection, and hope in God form people who can resist... 29 min read Narrated