The mutual influence of Christianity and the Stoic schoolBryant, James Henry
Religion
The mutual influence of Christianity and the Stoic school
Bryant, James Henry
Christianity and other religions -- Greek; Civilization, Modern -- Classical influences; Stoics
“Hæc tibi scribo, is qui Annæum Serenum, carissimum mihi, tam immodice
flevi, ut quod minime velim, inter exempla sim eorum quos dolor vicit:
hodie tamen factum meum damno,” &c.—_Ep._ LXIII. 12.
Footnote 22:
φασὶ δὲ καὶ ἀπαθῆ εἶναι τὸν σοφὸν, κ.τ.λ.—Diog. Laert. VI. 1. 64.
Footnote 23:
2 Cor. vi. 8-10.
Footnote 24:
Phil. iv. 11-13.
Footnote 25:
“Omnes mortales multo antecedes, non multo te dii antecedent....
Tantum sapienti sua, quantum Deo, omnis ætas patet. Est aliquid, quo
sapiens antecedat Deum: ille naturæ beneficio non timet, suo
sapiens.”—_Ep._ LIII.
Footnote 26:
1 Cor. xv. 19.
Footnote 27:
On this part the following words of Cousin are worthy of attention:
“Le Stoïcisme est essentiellement solitaire: c’est le soin exclusif de
son âme, sans regard à celles des autres; et comme la seule chose
importante est la pureté de l’âme, quand cette pureté est trop en
péril, quand on désespère d’être victorieux dans la lutte, on peut la
terminer, comme l’a terminée Caton. Ainsi la philosophie n’est plus
qu’un apprentissage de la mort, et non de la vie; elle tend à la mort
par son image, l’apathie et l’ataraxie, et se résout définitivement en
son egoïsme sublime.”
Footnote 28:
St Matt. xxv. 40.
Footnote 29:
Lib. VII. c. 1. §. XIII.
Footnote 30:
Lect. v. 194.
Footnote 31:
_Later Roman Commonwealth_, II. 398.
Footnote 32:
Ἄνευ τοῦ πράττειν, μέχρι τοῦ λέγειν. Quoted by Gataker from Gellius,
_Noct. Attic._ 17, 19.
Footnote 33:
“Non dicebant, quemadmodum ipsi viverent, sed quemadmodum vivendum
esset.”—Seneca, _de Vit. Beat._ c. 18.
Footnote 34:
The words of Gataker, in the Preface to his _Marc. Anton._, are:
“Veruntamen ex eis qui sectæ hujus in disciplinam serio seduloque sese
dederunt, per singulas quasque fere ætates reperti sunt, qui fide
dignorum scriptorum suffragiis consensu consono attestantibus, ita
dogmata sua factis consentaneis consignata, decretaque vitæ instituto
æquabili fere comprobata exhibuerint, ut nominis etiam Christiani
professoribus plerisque pudorem incutere, ruborem suffundere merito
queant.”
CHAPTER III.
THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY ON STOICISM.
“Victi victoribus leges dederunt.”
SEN. quoted by St Aug. in _Civ. Dei_.
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