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-(A Greek philosophy, inculcating doctrines of severe morality, self-denials, and inconvenience) -Scripture analogies to .John the Baptist wore camel's hair and subsisted on locusts and wild honey Matthew 3:4 .Came "neither eating nor drinking," Matthew 11:18; Luke 7:33 -Jesus requires self-denial and "crosses," Matthew 10:38, 39; 16:24; Mark 8:34, 35; Luke 9:23-26; 14:27 -The subordination of natural affection Matthew 10:37; Luke 14:26 -Paul teaches .That the "law of the mind" is at war with the "law of the members," Romans 7:23 with Romans 7:14-24 .That the body must be kept under subjection I Corinthians 9:27 .Celibacy I Corinthians 7:1-9, 25, 26, 32, 33, 39, 40 -School of, at Athens Acts 17:18 -See ASCETICISM
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