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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Epicurean (Philosophical group in the New Testament)
Followers of Epicurus, who taught that the best thing in life is pleasure, meaning freedom from pain and worry, and that the gods, if there are any, leave people alone. Some of them argued with Paul in Athens, along with Stoics.
Followers of Epicurus, who taught that the best thing in life is pleasure, meaning freedom from pain and worry, and that the gods, if there are any, leave people alone. Some of them argued with Paul in Athens, along with Stoics.
Not a person but a follower of the philosophy founded by Epicurus, who taught that pleasure, understood as freedom from pain and disturbance, was the chief good, and that the gods, if they existed, took no active interest in human affairs. Acts 17:18 records Epicurean philosophers debating Paul in Athens alongside Stoics after he preached about Jesus and the resurrection, part of the setting for his address on the Areopagus.
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- Acts 17:18
