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Stoicism

 

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 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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