From Nave's Topical Bible
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- (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