I cannot refrain from quoting here the following excellent remarks on the origin of many Stoic philosophers who had great influence on the system, from the article, “The Ancient Stoics,” in the _Oxford Essays_ of 1858, by Sir Alexander Grant, Bart.: “If we cast our eyes on a list of the early Stoics and their native places, we cannot avoid noticing how many of this school appear to have come of an Eastern and often of a Semitic stock. Zeno, their founder, was from Cittium, in Cyprus, by all accounts of a Phœnician family. Of his disciples Persæus came also from Cittium; Herillus was from Carthage; Athenodorus from Tarsus; Cleanthes from Assos, in the Troad. The chief disciples of Cleanthes were Iphœrus of the Bosphorus, and Chrysippus from Soli in Cilicia. Chrysippus was succeeded by Zeno of Sidon, and Diogenes of Babylon. The latter taught Antipater of Tarsus; who taught Panælius of Rhodus; who taught Posidonius of Apamea in Syria. There was another Athenodorus, from Cana, in Cilicia; and the early Stoic Archedemus is mentioned by Cicero as belonging to Tarsus. When we notice the frequent connexion of Cilicia with this list of names, we may well be reminded of one who was born at Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; and we may be led to ask, is there not something in the mental characteristics of the early Stoics analogous to his?” CHAPTER II. STOICISM IN COMPARISON WITH CHRISTIANITY. Ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ, οὐκ ἔγνω ὁ κόσμος διὰ τῆς σοφίᾳς τὸν Θεόν. 1 _Ep. ad Cor._ 1. 21. Our way is now plain to compare this system of philosophy, which has thus been sketched, with the teaching of Christianity. We shall see, if we place the address of St Paul on Mars’ Hill as the foundation of our thought, how much the Christian Apostle had in common with the Stoic teachers. As we go further and ask ourselves the foundations on which the tenets of the religion of Jesus, and those of the philosophy of Zeno, rest, we shall see that herein they widely differ. It will be our work, in order to distinguish the two things to be compared, again to refer to the address to the Athenians: and although an exhaustive commentary on that address would be out of place here; yet the subject seems to claim that we refer to certain parts somewhat minutely.