Reason Hebrews 4:12 4 Maccabees 1

Reason Hebrews 4:12 4 Maccabees 1

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints and [their] marrow, and [is] able to discern thoughts and intentions of [the] heart

Ac 10:29  Wherefore also, having been sent for, I came without saying anything against it. I inquire therefore for what reason ye have sent for me.

Ac 10:29  Therefore came I [unto you] without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent <3056> ye have sent for me?

logos: a word (as embodying an idea), a statement, a speech

Original Word: λόγος, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: logos
Phonetic Spelling: (log'-os)
Definition: a word (as embodying an idea), a statement, a speech
Usage: a word, speech, divine utterance, analogy.

[3056 (lógos) is a common term (used 330 times in the NT) with regards to a person sharing a message (discourse, "communication-speech"). 3056 (lógos) is a broad term meaning "reasoning expressed by words."]

reason, the mental faculty of thinking, meditating, reasoning, calculating, etc.: once so in the phrase ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ, of the divine mind, pervading and noting all things by its proper force, Hebrews 4:12.

 reason, cause, ground: τίνι λόγῳ, for what reason? why? Acts 10:29 (ἐκ τίνος λόγου; Aeschylus Choeph. 515; ἐξ οὐδενός λόγου, Sophocles Phil. 730; τίνι δικαίῳ λόγῳ κτλ.; Plato, Gorgias, p. 512 c.); παρεκτός λόγου πορνείας (Vulg.excepta fornicationis causa) is generally referred to this head, Matthew 5:32; (Matthew 19:9 L WH marginal reading); but since where λόγος is used in this sense the genitive is not added, it has seemed best to include this passage among those mentioned in I. 6 above.

logic--(derived from the word Logos, which see). A rational relation or connection between idea and expression. Logic in its strictest sense is the only accurate method of arriving at Truth. Any system of philosophy or religious doctrine that does not admit of the rules of perfect logic in reaching its conclusion from a stated premise, must be outside the pale of pure reason and in the realm of man-made dogma. Logic and Logos are almost synonymous terms, and the highest scriptural authority tells us that all things were made by the Word. Hence, the word of reason or the reasonable word is the very foundation of the universe. Therefore, to know accurately about the reality of things we must disregard all appearances as indicated by the five senses, and go into pure reason--the Spirit from which was created everything that has permanent existence.

4 Maccabees Chapter 1

13) Our inquiry, accordingly, is whether reason is sovereign over the emotions. 

14) We shall decide just what reason is and what emotion is, how many kinds of emotions there are, and whether reason rules over all these. 

15) Now reason is the mind that with sound logic prefers the life of wisdom. 

16) Wisdom, next, is the knowledge of divine and human matters and the causes of these. 

17) This, in turn, is education in the Law, by which we learn divine matters reverently and human affairs to our advantage. 

18) Now the kinds of wisdom are rational judgment, justice, courage, and self-control. 

19) Rational judgment is supreme over all of these, since by means of it reason rules over the emotions. 

20) The two most comprehensive types of the emotions are pleasure and pain; and each of these is by nature concerned with both body and soul. 

21) The emotions of both pleasure and pain have many consequences. 

22) Thus desire precedes pleasure and delight follows it. 

23) Fear precedes pain and sorrow comes after. 

24) Anger, as a man will see if he reflects on this experience, is an emotion embracing pleasure and pain. 

25) In pleasure there exists even a malevolent tendency, which is the most complex of all the emotions. 

26) In the soul it is boastfulness, covetousness, thirst for honour, rivalry, and malice; 

27) in the body, indiscriminate eating, gluttony, and solitary gormandising. 

28) Just as pleasure and pain are two plants growing from the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these plants, 

29) each of which the master cultivator, reason, weeds and prunes and ties up and waters and thoroughly irrigates, and so tames the jungle of habits and emotions. 

30) For reason is the guide of the virtues, but over the emotions it is sovereign. Observe now first of all that rational judgment is sovereign over the emotions by virtue of the restraining power of self-control. 

31) Self-control, then, is dominance over the desires. 

32) Some desires are mental, others are physical, and reason obviously rules over both. 

33) Otherwise how is it that when we are attracted to forbidden foods we abstain from the pleasure to be had from them? Is it not because reason is able to rule over appetites? I for one think so. 

34) Therefore when we crave seafood and fowl and animals and all sorts of foods that are forbidden to us by the Law, we abstain because of domination by reason. 

35) For the emotions of the appetites are restrained, checked by the temperate mind, and all the impulses of the body are bridled by reason. 

4 Maccabees Chapter 2

21) Now when God fashioned man, he planted in him emotions and inclinations, 

22) but at the same time he enthroned the intellect among the senses as a sacred governor over them all. 

23) To the mind he gave the Law; and one who lives subject to this will rule a kingdom that is temperate, just, good, and courageous. 

24) How is it then, one might say, that if reason is master of the emotions, it does not control forgetfulness and ignorance?