Stoicism
12 references
- (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 Matt. 3:4
- Came "neither eating nor drinking," Matt. 11:18; Luke 7:33
- Jesus requires self-denial and "crosses," Matt. 10:38,39; 16:24; Mark 8:34,35; Luke 9:23-26; 14:27
- The subordination of natural affection Matt. 10:37; Luke 14:26
- Paul teaches
- That the "law of the mind" is at war with the "law of the members," Rom. 7:23; with 7:14-24
- That the body must be kept under subjection 1 Cor. 9:27
- Celibacy 1 Cor. 7:1-9,25,26,32,33,39,40
- School of, at Athens Acts 17:18
- See Asceticism
From Nave's Topical Bible (1896). Public domain.