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