Nave’s Topical Bible

Stoicism

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(A Greek philosophy, inculcating doctrines of severe morality, self-denials, and inconvenience)
Scripture analogies to
John the Baptist wore camel' s hair and subsisted on locusts and wild honey Mt 3:4
Came “neither eating nor drinking,” Mt 11:18; Lu 7:33
Jesus requires self-denial and “crosses,” Mt 10:38,39; 16:24; Mr 8:34,35; Lu 9:23-26; 14:27
The subordination of natural affection Mt 10:37; Lu 14:26
Paul teaches
That the “law of the mind” is at war with the “law of the members,” Ro 7:23; with 7:14-24
That the body must be kept under subjection 1Co 9:27
Celibacy 1Co 7:1-9,25,26,32,33,39,40
School of, at Athens Ac 17:18
See Asceticism

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