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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