Nave's Topical Index

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