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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Stoick (Philosophical group in the New Testament)
Not a person. The Stoics followed the Greek school Zeno of Citium founded, which taught self-control and calm acceptance of fate, and some of them argued with Paul in Athens (Acts 17:18).
Not a person. The Stoics followed the Greek school Zeno of Citium founded, which taught self-control and calm acceptance of fate, and some of them argued with Paul in Athens (Acts 17:18).
Not a person but an adjective describing followers of Stoicism, the Greek philosophical school founded by Zeno of Citium that taught self-control and rational acceptance of fate as the path to virtue. Acts 17:18 pairs "certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics" among those who debated with Paul in the Athens marketplace before he addressed the Areopagus.
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- Acts 17:18
