From Nave’s Topical Bible
Stoicism
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 22Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (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 honeyMatthew 3:4
- Came "neither eating nor drinking,"Matthew 11:18Luke 7:33
- Jesus requires self-denial and "crosses,"Matthew 10:38Matthew 10:39Matthew 16:24Mark 8:34Mark 8:35Luke 9:23–26Luke 14:27
- The subordination of natural affectionMatthew 10:37Luke 14:26
- Paul teaches
- That the "law of the mind" is at war with the "law of the members," with 7:14-24Romans 7:23
- That the body must be kept under subjection1 Corinthians 9:27
- Celibacy1 Corinthians 7:1–91 Corinthians 7:251 Corinthians 7:261 Corinthians 7:321 Corinthians 7:331 Corinthians 7:391 Corinthians 7:40
- School of, at AthensActs 17:18
- See Asceticism
The passages, in Bible order (22)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Matthew 3:4
John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Commentary on Matthew 3:41 voice
(Verse 4.) Now John himself had a garment made of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist. He said, 'It is made of hair, not wool.' The type of clothing indicates austerity, not luxury. The leather belt that he wore, just like Elijah, is a symbol of mortification (IV Kings 1). Furthermore, what follows is... But his food was locusts and wild honey. It is fitting for a dweller of solitude to fulfill not the delights of food, but the necessity of human flesh.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 10:37
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
Commentary on Matthew 10:371 voice
Because of what He had said, I am not come to send peace but a sword, &c. that none might suppose that family affection was banished from His religion, He now adds, He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. So in the Song of Songs we read, Order love in me. (c. 2:4.)
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Matthew 10:38
and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
Commentary on Matthew 10:381 voice
(Verse 38, 39.) And whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. In another Gospel it is written: Whoever does not take up their cross daily. Let us not think that the ardor of faith can be enough once and for all, the cross must always be carried, so that we may always teach ourselves to love Christ.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
- Matthew 10:39
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
Commentary on Matthew 10:392 voices
(Verse 38, 39.) And whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. In another Gospel it is written: Whoever does not take up their cross daily. Let us not think that the ardor of faith can be enough once and for all, the cross must always be carried, so that we may always teach ourselves to love Christ.
Jerome· Commentary on Matthew, 420Patristic
Here Jesus calls the departure of life from the body the "loss of life," speaking figuratively. "He who finds his life" refers to anyone who too highly values transitory existence and as it were sells it at a profit. He will face the hands of death when he is sent to unremittable punishment and death.
Cyril of Alexandria· FRAGMENT 128.34, 444Patristic
- Matthew 11:18
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
Commentary on Matthew 11:181 voice
If fasting then pleases you, why were you not satisfied with John? If fulness, why not with the Son of man? Yet one of these ye said had a dæmon, the other ye called a gluttonous man, and drunkard.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420Patristic
- Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
Commentary on Matthew 16:241 voice
Whose sense what is written in the Gospel of Matthew: If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself (Matth. 16. 24). What is self-denial? or how does one who follows the Savior deny himself? On this matter I have spoken briefly in the third book of his commentary on Matthew: He who lays down the old man with his works denies himself, saying: And yet I live, but not me, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:20) and takes up his cross and is crucified to the world.
Jerome· Letter 121, Chapter 3, 420Patristic
- Mark 8:34
Then Jesus called the crowd to Him along with His disciples, and He told them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
Commentary on Mark 8:341 voice
If you wish to be the Lord's disciple, it is necessary you "take your cross, and follow the Lord: " your cross; that is, your own straits and tortures, or your body only, which is after the manner of a cross.
Tertullian· On Idolatry, 220Patristic
- Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel will save it.
Commentary on Mark 8:351 voice
For he that will save his life shall lose it; and he that shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it. Thus it is said to the faithful: He that will save his life shall lose it; and he that shall lose his life for my sake shall save it. As if it were said to the farmer: If you keep your grain, you lose it; if you sow it, you renew it. For who does not know that when grain is cast as seed, it perishes from sight, it fails in the earth?
Gregory the Dialogist· Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 32, 604Patristic
- Luke 7:33
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’
Commentary on Luke 7:331 voice
They take upon themselves to slander a man worthy of all admiration. They say that he who mortifies the law of sin which is in his members hath a devil.
Cyril of Alexandria· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 444Patristic
- Luke 9:23–26
Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
Commentary on Luke 9:23–261 voice
Now our Lord while He ever raises us to look to the future reward of virtue, and teaches us how good it is to despise worldly things, so also He supports the weakness of the human mind by a present recompense. For it is a hard thing to take up the cross, and expose your life to danger and your body to death; to give up what you are, when you wish to be what you are not; and even the loftiest virtue seldom exchanges things present for future.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
Commentary on Luke 14:261 voice
For if for thy sake the Lord renounces His own mother, saying, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? (Matt. 12:48, Mark 3:33.) why dost thou deserve to be preferred to thy Lord? But the Lord will have us neither be ignorant of nature, nor be her slaves, but so to submit to nature, that we reverence the Author of nature, and depart not from God out of love to our parents.
Ambrose of Milan· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 397Patristic
- Luke 14:27
And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
Commentary on Luke 14:271 voice
They show, further, that that Horos of theirs, whom they call by a variety of names, has two faculties,-the one of supporting, and the other of separating; and in so far as he supports and sustains, he is Stauros, while in so far as he divides and separates, he is Horos.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book I, 202Patristic
- Acts 17:18
Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
Commentary on Acts 17:181 voice
"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ;" branding not all philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, which abolishes providence and deifies pleasure, and whatever other philosophy honours the elements, but places not over them the efficient cause, nor apprehends the Creator.
Clement of Alexandria· The Stromata Book 1, 215Patristic
- Romans 7:23
But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
Commentary on Romans 7:231 voice
If Paul the apostle, the vessel of election, chastised his body and brought it into subjection, lest, having preached to others, he himself should be found a castaway: if he says 'But I see another law resisting the law of my mind and leading me into captivity,' and afterward says 'Unhappy man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?' — if he fears the snares of the body, are we secure?
Jerome· Homily 41, on Psalm 119, 420Patristic
- 1 Corinthians 7:1–9
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:1–91 voice
Of the benefit of virginity and of continency. In Genesis: "Multiplying I will multiply thy sorrows and thy groanings, and in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children; and thy turning shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."
Cyprian· Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, 258Patristic
- 1 Corinthians 7:25
Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7:251 voice
The Lord also showed that certain precepts were enacted for them by Moses, on account of their hardness [of heart], and because of their unwillingness to be obedient, when, on their saying to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to send away a wife?"
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book IV, 202Patristic