Stoicism

• (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 honeyMat 3:4
• Came "neither eating nor drinking,"Mat 11:18Luk 7:33
• Jesus requires self-denial and "crosses,"Mat 10:38Mat 10:39Mat 16:24Mrk 8:34Mrk 8:35Luk 9:23–26Luk 14:27
• The subordination of natural affectionMat 10:37Luk 14:26
• Paul teaches
• That the "law of the mind" is at war with the "law of the members,"Rom 7:23Rom 7:14–24
• That the body must be kept under subjection1Co 9:27
• Celibacy1Co 7:1–91Co 7:251Co 7:261Co 7:321Co 7:331Co 7:391Co 7:40
• School of, at AthensAct 17:18

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