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