Stoic
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.

2. (n.) Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.

3. (n.) Alt. of Stoical.

Greek
4770. Stoikos -- a Stoic
... Stoikos. 4771 . a Stoic. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: Stoikos Phonetic
Spelling: (sto-ik-os') Short Definition: Stoic Definition: Stoic. ...
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4746b. Stoikos -- Stoic, ie belonging to the Stoic school of ...
... 4746a, 4746b. Stoikos. 4747 . Stoic, ie belonging to the Stoic school
of thought. Transliteration: Stoikos Short Definition: stoic. ...
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Library

How the Will Governs the Sensual Appetite.
... Aulus Gellius having gone on sea with a famous Stoic, a great tempest arose, at
which the Stoic being frightened began to grow pale, to blench and to tremble ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iii how the will.htm

The Different Ideas of Philosophers on the Subject of Happiness. . ...
... Zeno, [379] the Stoic, thought the highest and only good existed in a virtuous life. ...
[373] Herillus. Cf. Cic. de Finib. V. 25. Of Carthage; a Stoic. ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter ii the different ideas.htm

He Has no Reason for Distinguishing a Plurality of Beings in the ...
... Footnotes: [113] kataleptikes ephodou--he katalepsis. These words are taken from
the Stoic logic, and refer to the Stoic view of the standard of truth. ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 18 he has no.htm

That God Only, the Creator of all Things, is to be Worshipped, and ...
... But what wonder is it if uncivilized or ignorant men err, since even philosophers
of the Stoic sect are of the same opinion, so as to judge that all the ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap v that god only the.htm

The Opinion of the Peripatetics and Stoics About Mental Emotions.
... with an eloquent and graceful style, relates, in his work entitled Noctes Atticæ
[338] that he once made a voyage with an eminent Stoic philosopher; and he ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 4 the opinion of the.htm

Our Spiritual Ancestry
... Epictetus was the consummate expression of that Stoic philosophy in which were blended
the clearness of Greek thought and the austerity of the best Roman life. ...
/.../merriam/the chief end of man/i our spiritual ancestry.htm

The Pythagoreans and Stoics, While they Hold the Immortality of ...
... [441] Cleanthes was a Stoic philosopher, who used to draw water by night for his
support, that he might devote himself to the study of philosophy by day. ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xviii the pythagoreans and stoics.htm

Letter iv. To Olympius.
... [1765] The founder of the Stoic school. [1766] The tribon, dim. ... 147. [1767] Cleanthes,
the Lydian Stoic, was hence called phreantlos, or well drawer. ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter iv to olympius.htm

That the Passions which Assail the Souls of Christians do not ...
... The Stoics, indeed, are accustomed to condemn compassion. [341] But how much more
honorable had it been in that Stoic we have been telling of, had he been ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 5 that the passions which.htm

Sources and Literature on St. Paul and his Work.
... correspondence of the moral maxims of Seneca with those of Paul, which is more apparent
than real, and from the desire to recommend the Stoic philosopher to ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 29 sources and literature.htm

Thesaurus
Stoic (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) Alt. of Stoical. Multi-Version Concordance Stoic (1 Occurrence). Acts
17:18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. ...
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Stoics (1 Occurrence)
... The Stoic system is never consistently materialistic, nor consistently idealistic. ...
In Stoic ethics, Greek philosophy reached the climax of its moral teaching. ...
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Areopagus (3 Occurrences)
... He had found an altar to a god unknown. Then he develops theme of the great and
only God, not from the Hebrew, but from the Greek, the Stoic point of view. ...
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Stocks (10 Occurrences)

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Judaeus
... Yahweh had been the subject of an idealizing process, and tended, like the Stoic
deity, to lose specific relation with the world and man. ...
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Kindness (295 Occurrences)
... 3. Stoic Teaching: This twofold ideal of social morality as universal benevolence
and mutual affection had been foreshadowed by the STOICS (which see). ...
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Philo
... Yahweh had been the subject of an idealizing process, and tended, like the Stoic
deity, to lose specific relation with the world and man. ...
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Ostraca
... 3. New Testament Ostraca: It is said that Cleanthes the Stoic, being too poor to
buy papyrus, used to write on ostraca, but no remains of classical literature ...
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Idle (33 Occurrences)
... assembly of people. (WEY). Acts 17:18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic
philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What ...
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Foreign (65 Occurrences)
... nothing of Joseph. (WEY). Acts 17:18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic
philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What ...
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Bible Concordance
Stoic (1 Occurrence)

Acts 17:18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

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Stoicism: Scripture Analogies to John the Baptist Wore Camel's Hair and Subsisted on Locusts and Wild Honey

Stoicism: The Subordination of Natural Affection

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