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Stoics

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topics: Stoicism, Asceticism.

Stoics were adherents of a Greek philosophical school known for severe morality, self-denial, and the disciplining of the body, treated in scripture alongside the broader patterns of self-mastery, fasting, and bodily subjection that the New Testament both commends in measure and warns against in excess.

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