Stoicism

A Grecian philosophy, inculcating doctrines of severe morality, self-denials, and inconvenient services.

Scripture analogies to:

– John the Baptist:

b Wears camel’s hair and subsists on locusts and wild honey

Mat 3:4

b Comes »neither eating nor drinking«

Mat 11:18; Luk 7:33

– Jesus requires:

b Self-Denials and crosses

Mat 10:38-39; Mat 16:24; Mar 8:34-35; Luk 9:23-26; Luk 14:27

b The subordination of natural affection

Mat 10:37; Luk 14:26

– Paul teaches:

b That the »law of the mind« is at war with the »law of the members«

Rom 7:14-24

b That the body must be kept under

1Co 9:27

b Advises celibacy

1Co 7:1-9; 1Co 7:25-26; 1Co 7:32-33; 1Co 7:39-40

School of, at Athens

Act 17:18 Asceticism