1. Euripides, Hecuba, 348 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728| 348. κακὴ φανοῦμαι καὶ φιλόψυχος γυνή. | |
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2. Septuagint, Tobit, 14.7 (4th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728 | 14.7. All the Gentiles will praise the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people. And all who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our brethren. |
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3. Anon., 1 Enoch, 1.8, 5.7, 11.1, 25.7, 27.4, 37.4, 45.6, 48.7, 58.2, 91.13, 93.1, 94.4, 96.1, 96.3, 96.5, 100.5, 103.3, 104.2, 104.13, 108.1, 108.7-108.9, 108.11 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728 | 1.8. But with the righteous He will make peace.And will protect the elect, And mercy shall be upon them.And they shall all belong to God, And they shall be prospered, And they shall all be blessed.And He will help them all, And light shall appear unto them, And He will make peace with them'. 11.1. And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send 25.7. Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath prepared such things for the righteous, and hath created them and promised to give to them. 27.4. In the days of judgement over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with 37.4. Till the present day such wisdom has never been given by the Lord of Spirits as I have received according to my insight, according to the good pleasure of the Lord of Spirits by whom the lot of 45.6. For I have provided and satisfied with peace My righteous ones And have caused them to dwell before Me:But for the sinners there is judgement impending with Me, So that I shall destroy them from the face of the earth. 48.7. And the wisdom of the Lord of Spirits hath revealed him to the holy and righteous; For he hath preserved the lot of the righteous, Because they have hated and despised this world of unrighteousness, And have hated all its works and ways in the name of the Lord of Spirits: For in his name they are saved, And according to his good pleasure hath it been in regard to their life. 58.2. Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect, For glorious shall be your lot. 91.13. And at its close they shall acquire houses through their righteousness, And a house shall be built for the Great King in glory for evermore, 93.1. And at its close shall be elected The elect righteous of the eternal plant of righteousness, To receive sevenfold instruction concerning all His creation. 94.4. But seek and choose for yourselves righteousness and an elect life, And walk in the paths of peace, And ye shall live and prosper. 96.1. Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you, And ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires. 96.3. Wherefore fear not, ye that have suffered; For healing shall be your portion, And a bright light shall enlighten you, And the voice of rest ye shall hear from heaven. 96.5. Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat, And drink wine in large bowls, And tread under foot the lowly with your might. 100.5. And over all the righteous and holy He will appoint guardians from amongst the holy angels To guard them as the apple of an eye, Until He makes an end of all wickedness and all sin, And though the righteous sleep a long sleep, they have nought to fear. 103.3. That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them, And written down for the spirits of those who have died in righteousness, And that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense for your labours, And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living. 104.2. One: and your names are written before the glory of the Great One. Be hopeful; for aforetime ye were put to shame through ill and affliction; but now ye shall shine as the lights of heaven, 104.13. wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.' 108.1. Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for those who will come after him, 108.1. found pure so that they should bless His name. And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books. And he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked men, and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were put to shame, 108.7. of the prophets-(even) the things that shall be. For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed 108.8. by God; and of those who have been put to shame by wicked men: Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to torture. Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were 108.11. yet they blessed Me. And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed |
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4. Hebrew Bible, Daniel, 8.7, 8.10, 8.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728| 8.7. "וּרְאִיתִיו מַגִּיעַ אֵצֶל הָאַיִל וַיִּתְמַרְמַר אֵלָיו וַיַּךְ אֶת־הָאַיִל וַיְשַׁבֵּר אֶת־שְׁתֵּי קְרָנָיו וְלֹא־הָיָה כֹחַ בָּאַיִל לַעֲמֹד לְפָנָיו וַיַּשְׁלִיכֵהוּ אַרְצָה וַיִּרְמְסֵהוּ וְלֹא־הָיָה מַצִּיל לָאַיִל מִיָּדוֹ׃", 8.13. "וָאֶשְׁמְעָה אֶחָד־קָדוֹשׁ מְדַבֵּר וַיֹּאמֶר אֶחָד קָדוֹשׁ לַפַּלְמוֹנִי הַמְדַבֵּר עַד־מָתַי הֶחָזוֹן הַתָּמִיד וְהַפֶּשַׁע שֹׁמֵם תֵּת וְקֹדֶשׁ וְצָבָא מִרְמָס׃", | 8.7. "And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled upon him; and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.", 8.10. "And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and some of the host and of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled upon them.", 8.13. "Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said unto that certain one who spoke: ‘How long shall be the vision concerning the continual burnt-offering, and the transgression that causes appalment, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled under foot?’", |
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| 5. Anon., Testament of Job, 38.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728 |
6. Philo of Alexandria, On The Embassy To Gaius, 369 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728 | 369. we at last recovered our breath, not because we had been afraid of death from a base hankering after life, since we would have cheerfully embraced death as immortality if our laws and customs could have been established by such means, but because we knew that we should be destroyed with great ignominy, without any desirable object being secured by such means, for whatever insults ambassadors are subjected to are at all times referred to those who sent them. |
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7. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 6.344, 12.301, 13.198 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728 | 6.344. and I have a fair occasion offered me to enter on such a discourse by Saul the king of the Hebrews; for although he knew what was coming upon him, and that he was to die immediately, by the prediction of the prophet, he did not resolve to fly from death, nor so far to indulge in the love of life as to betray his own people to the enemy, or to bring a disgrace on his royal dignity; 12.301. So he set them in their ancient order of battle used by their forefathers, under their captains of thousands, and other officers, and dismissed such as were newly married, as well as those that had newly gained possessions, that they might not fight in a cowardly manner, out of an inordinate love of life, in order to enjoy those blessings. 13.198. “O my countrymen, you are not ignorant that our father, myself, and my brethren, have ventured to hazard our lives, and that willingly, for the recovery of your liberty; since I have therefore such plenty of examples before me, and we of our family have determined with ourselves to die for our laws, and our divine worship, there shall no terror be so great as to banish this resolution from our souls, nor to introduce in its place a love of life, and a contempt of glory. |
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8. New Testament, Apocalypse, 12.11 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728| 12.11. καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐνίκησαν αὐτὸν διὰ τὸ αἷμα τοῦ ἀρνίου καὶ διὰ τὸν λόγον τῆς μαρτυρίας αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἠγάπησαν τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτῶν ἄχρι θανάτου· | 12.11. They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death. |
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9. New Testament, Colossians, 3.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728| 3.1. Εἰ οὖν συνηγέρθητε τῷ χριστῷ, τὰ ἄνω ζητεῖτε, οὗ ὁ χριστός ἐστινἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ θεοῦ καθήμενος· | 3.1. If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. |
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10. New Testament, Philippians, 3.19-3.21 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728| 3.19. ὧν τὸ τέλος ἀπώλεια, ὧν ὁ θεὸς ἡ κοιλία καὶ ἡ δόξα ἐν τῇ αἰσχύνῃ αὐτῶν, οἱ τὰ ἐπίγεια φρονοῦντες. 3.20. ἡμῶν γὰρ τὸ πολίτευμα ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὑπάρχει, ἐξ οὗ καὶ σωτῆρα ἀπεκδεχόμεθα κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, 3.21. ὃς μετασχηματίσει τὸ σῶμα τῆς ταπεινώσεως ἡμῶν σύμμορφον τῷ σώματι τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἐνέργειαν τοῦ δύνασθαι αὐτὸν καὶ ὑποτάξαι αὑτῷ τὰ πάντα. | 3.19. whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. 3.20. For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 3.21. who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself. |
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| 11. Lucian, Hercules, 518 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728 |
| 12. Demosthenes, Orations, 60.28 Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728 |
13. Anon., 4 Ezra, 5.29 Tagged with subjects: •flesh, disdain towards Found in books: Stuckenbruck (2007) 728 | 5.29. And those who opposed thy promises have trodden down those who believed thy covets. |
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