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... Epictetus , Dio Chrysostom ... ( 2 ) The " philosopher " or moral reformer ... 2. The contents of ethical teaching , marked by a religious reference . Epictetus ' two maxims , " Follow Nature , " " Follow God " 152-155 Christian ethics ...
... Epictetus , Dio Chrysostom ... ( 2 ) The " philosopher " or moral reformer ... 2. The contents of ethical teaching , marked by a religious reference . Epictetus ' two maxims , " Follow Nature , " " Follow God " 152-155 Christian ethics ...
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... Epictetus 221-223 B. - The Christian Idea . Primitive Christianity a contrast : two main conceptions . 1. Wages for work done ... ... ... 2. Positive Law - God a Lawgiver and Judge . Difficulties in fusing the two types . ( i ...
... Epictetus 221-223 B. - The Christian Idea . Primitive Christianity a contrast : two main conceptions . 1. Wages for work done ... ... ... 2. Positive Law - God a Lawgiver and Judge . Difficulties in fusing the two types . ( i ...
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... Epictetus , the lame slave , the Socrates of his time , in whom the morality and the reli- gion of the Greek world find their sublimest expression , and whose conversations and lectures at Nicopolis , taken down , probably in short ...
... Epictetus , the lame slave , the Socrates of his time , in whom the morality and the reli- gion of the Greek world find their sublimest expression , and whose conversations and lectures at Nicopolis , taken down , probably in short ...
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... Epictetus : 2 the student reads the first sentence of Xenophon's Memora- bilia , and makes his criticism upon it : " I have often wondered what in the world were the grounds on which .... Rather .... the ground on which .... It is ...
... Epictetus : 2 the student reads the first sentence of Xenophon's Memora- bilia , and makes his criticism upon it : " I have often wondered what in the world were the grounds on which .... Rather .... the ground on which .... It is ...
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... Epictetus have a singular interest in this respect , apart from their contents ; for they are in great measure notes of such 1 There is a good example of the former of these methods in Maximus of Tyre , Dissert . 33 , where § 1 is part ...
... Epictetus have a singular interest in this respect , apart from their contents ; for they are in great measure notes of such 1 There is a good example of the former of these methods in Maximus of Tyre , Dissert . 33 , where § 1 is part ...
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Page 169 - For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 47 - Libanius, there was a y'//J</)irr/irt (Liban. defort. sua, vol. ip 59), which points to an assimilation of Athenian usage in his time to that which is mentioned in the following note. 2 This was fixed by a law of Julian in 362, which, however, states it as a concession on the part of the Emperor : " quia singulis civitatibus adesse ipse non possum, jubeo quisquis docere vult non repente nee temere prosiliat ad hoc munus sed judicio ordinis probatus decretum curialium mereatur, optimorum conspirante...
Page 252 - We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou hast made known to us through Jesus thy servant ; to thee be the glory forever.