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Seneca The Younger, Letters, 72.5

nan Sometimes an external happening reminds him of his mortality, but it is a light blow, and merely grazes the surface of his skin.[4] Some trouble, I repeat, may touch him like a breath of wind, but that Supreme Good of his is unshaken. This is what I mean: there are external disadvantages, like pimples and boils that break out upon a body which is normally strong and sound; but there is no deep-seated malady.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 3.830-3.1094 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
2. Epictetus, Discourses, 3.22.72-3.22.73 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
3. New Testament, 1 Peter, 1.6-1.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.6. Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials 1.7. that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ -- 1.8. whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory --
4. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 23.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
appraisal,of joy	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
cautery	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
conversion	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
cynics/cynicism,mild	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
cynics/cynicism	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
diatribe	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
diet,in moral formation	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
dio chrysostom	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
drugs	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
epistle,pastorals	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
exhortation	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
frankness	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
galen	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
god,value of	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
goods,benefit	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
joy,enduring	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
joy,object of	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
joy	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
lust	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
metaphor	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
other,the,detachment from	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
pastoral epistles	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
pastorals	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
philosopher,as physician	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
physician,philosopher as	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
skepticcism	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
sociological implication,of emotional directives	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
sophist	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
soul,corrupt	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
stoicism	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
suffering,of the believer	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
symbolic universe,see worldview,of emotional directives	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
trajan	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
value system	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
vespasian	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
vice	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
virtue'	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 125
virtue	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
worldview	Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128