1. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 29.4, 71.19, 82.6, 89.8 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 70| 29.4. קוֹל־יְהוָה בַּכֹּחַ קוֹל יְהוָה בֶּהָדָר׃ 71.19. וְצִדְקָתְךָ אֱלֹהִים עַד־מָרוֹם אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂיתָ גְדֹלוֹת אֱלֹהִים מִי כָמוֹךָ׃ 82.6. אֲנִי־אָמַרְתִּי אֱלֹהִים אַתֶּם וּבְנֵי עֶלְיוֹן כֻּלְּכֶם׃ 89.8. אֵל נַעֲרָץ בְּסוֹד־קְדֹשִׁים רַבָּה וְנוֹרָא עַל־כָּל־סְבִיבָיו׃ | 29.4. The voice of the LORD is powerful; The voice of the LORD is full of majesty. 71.19. Thy righteousness also, O God, which reacheth unto high heaven; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto Thee? 82.6. I said: Ye are godlike beings, and all of you sons of the Most High. 89.8. A God dreaded in the great council of the holy ones, And feared of all them that are about Him? |
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2. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 10.19 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 70| 10.19. בְּרֹב דְּבָרִים לֹא יֶחְדַּל־פָּשַׁע וְחֹשֵׂךְ שְׂפָתָיו מַשְׂכִּיל׃ | 10.19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; But he that refraineth his lips is wise. |
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3. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 23.2 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 63| 23.2. לֹא־תַשִּׁיךְ לְאָחִיךָ נֶשֶׁךְ כֶּסֶף נֶשֶׁךְ אֹכֶל נֶשֶׁךְ כָּל־דָּבָר אֲשֶׁר יִשָּׁךְ׃ 23.2. לֹא־יָבֹא פְצוּעַ־דַּכָּא וּכְרוּת שָׁפְכָה בִּקְהַל יְהוָה׃ | 23.2. He that is crushed or maimed in his privy parts shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD. |
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| 4. Hebrew Bible, Judges, 4.32 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 70 |
5. Plato, Phaedo, 61c, 61b (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 68| 61b. ποιήσαντα ποιήματα καὶ πιθόμενον τῷ ἐνυπνίῳ. οὕτω δὴ πρῶτον μὲν εἰς τὸν θεὸν ἐποίησα οὗ ἦν ἡ παροῦσα θυσία: μετὰ δὲ τὸν θεόν, ἐννοήσας ὅτι τὸν ποιητὴν δέοι, εἴπερ μέλλοι ποιητὴς εἶναι, ποιεῖν μύθους ἀλλ’ οὐ λόγους, καὶ αὐτὸς οὐκ ἦ μυθολογικός, διὰ ταῦτα δὴ οὓς προχείρους εἶχον μύθους καὶ ἠπιστάμην τοὺς Αἰσώπου, τούτων ἐποίησα οἷς πρώτοις ἐνέτυχον. ταῦτα οὖν, ὦ Κέβης, Εὐήνῳ φράζε, καὶ ἐρρῶσθαι καί, ἂν σωφρονῇ, ἐμὲ διώκειν ὡς τάχιστα. | 61b. before making sure that I had done what I ought, by obeying the dream and composing verses. So first I composed a hymn to the god whose festival it was; and after the god, considering that a poet, if he is really to be a poet, must compose myths and not speeches, since I was not a maker of myths, I took the myths of Aesop, which I had at hand and knew, and turned into verse the first I came upon. So tell Evenus that, Cebes, and bid him farewell, and tell him, if he is wise, to come after me as quickly as he can. |
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6. Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes, 12.12 (5th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 70| 12.12. וְיֹתֵר מֵהֵמָּה בְּנִי הִזָּהֵר עֲשׂוֹת סְפָרִים הַרְבֵּה אֵין קֵץ וְלַהַג הַרְבֵּה יְגִעַת בָּשָׂר׃ | 12.12. And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. |
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| 7. Clitarchus Alexandrinus, Fragments, 123, 69, 71 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 206 |
8. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 176 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 13, 14, 63 | 176. At all events, they say that some wise men, when they have been tortured on the wheel to make them betray secrets which are not worthy to be divulged, have bitten out their tongues, and so have inflicted on their torturers a more grievous torture than they themselves were suffering, as they could not learn from them what they desired; and it is better to be made an eunuch than to be hurried into wickedness by the fury of the illicit passions: for all these things, as they overwhelm the soul in pernicious calamities, are deservedly followed by extreme punishments. |
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| 9. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 3.236-3.237 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 63 |
| 10. Philo of Alexandria, On Dreams, 2.64 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 69 |
11. New Testament, Matthew, 5.29-5.30, 18.8-18.9, 19.11-19.12 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 13, 14, 15, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70, 95| 5.29. εἰ δὲ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου ὁ δεξιὸς σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔξελε αὐτὸν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ, συμφέρει γάρ σοι ἵνα ἀπόληται ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου καὶ μὴ ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου βληθῇ εἰς γέενναν· 5.30. καὶ εἰ ἡ δεξιά σου χεὶρ σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔκκοψον αὐτὴν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ, συμφέρει γάρ σοι ἵνα ἀπόληται ἓν τῶν μελῶν σου καὶ μὴ ὅλον τὸ σῶμά σου εἰς γέενναν ἀπέλθῃ. 18.8. Εἰ δὲ ἡ χείρ σου ἢ ὁ πούς σου σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔκκοψον αὐτὸν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ· καλόν σοί ἐστιν εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ζωὴν κυλλὸν ἢ χωλόν, ἢ δύο χεῖρας ἢ δύο πόδας ἔχοντα βληθῆναι εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον. 18.9. καὶ εἰ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔξελε αὐτὸν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ· καλόν σοί ἐστιν μονόφθαλμον εἰς τὴν ζωὴν εἰσελθεῖν, ἢ δύο ὀφθαλμοὺς ἔχοντα βληθῆναι εἰς τὴν γέενναν τοῦ πυρός. 19.11. ὁ δὲ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Οὐ πάντες χωροῦσι τὸν λόγον, ἀλλʼ οἷς δέδοται. 19.12. εἰσὶν γὰρ εὐνοῦχοι οἵτινες ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς ἐγεννήθησαν οὕτως, καὶ εἰσὶν εὐνοῦχοι οἵτινες εὐνουχίσθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ εἰσὶν εὐνοῦχοι οἵτινες εὐνούχισαν ἑαυτοὺς διὰ τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν. ὁ δυνάμενος χωρεῖν χωρείτω. | 5.29. If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. 5.30. If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be thrown into Gehenna. 18.8. If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. 18.9. If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire. 19.11. But he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given. 19.12. For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it." |
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12. New Testament, 2 Corinthians, 5.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 13| 5.16. Ὥστε ἡμεῖς ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν οὐδένα οἴδαμεν κατὰ σάρκα· εἰ καὶ ἐγνώκαμεν κατὰ σάρκα Χριστόν, ἀλλὰ νῦν οὐκέτι γινώσκομεν. | |
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13. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 7.5, 7.35 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 61, 74, 95, 206| 7.5. μὴ ἀποστερεῖτε ἀλλήλους, εἰ μήτι [ἂν] ἐκ συμφώνου πρὸς καιρὸν ἵνα σχολάσητε τῇ προσευχῇ καὶ πάλιν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἦτε, ἵνα μὴ πειράζῃ ὑμᾶς ὁ Σατανᾶς διὰ τὴν ἀκρασίαν [ὑμῶν]. 7.35. τοῦτο δὲ πρὸς τὸ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν σύμφορον λέγω, οὐχ ἵνα βρόχον ὑμῖν ἐπιβάλω, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ εὔσχημον καὶ εὐπάρεδρον τῷ κυρίῳ ἀπερισπάστως. | 7.5. Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for aseason, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may betogether again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack ofself-control. 7.35. This Isay for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that whichis appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord withoutdistraction. |
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| 14. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, "1019" (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •self-mutilation Found in books: Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 23 |
| 15. Epictetus, Discourses, 2.5.24-2.5.26 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 69 |
16. Suetonius, Domitianus, 7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 63 | 7. He made many innovations also in common customs. He did away with the distribution of food to the people and revived that of formal dinners. He added two factions of drivers in the Circus, with gold and purple as their colours, to the four former ones. He forbade the appearance of actors on the stage, but allowed the practice of their art in private houses. He prohibited the castration of males, and kept down the price of the eunuchs that remained in the hands of the slave dealers., Once upon the occasion of a plentiful wine crop, attended with a scarcity of grain, thinking that the fields were neglected through too much attention to the vineyards, he made an edict forbidding anyone to plant more vines in Italy and ordering that the vineyards in the provinces be cut down, or but half of them at most be left standing; but he did not persist in carrying out the measure. He opened some of the most important offices of the court to freedmen and Roman knights., He prohibited the uniting of two legions in one camp and the deposit of more than a thousand sesterces by any one soldier at headquarters, because it was clear that Lucius Antonius had been especially led to attempt a revolution by the amount of such deposits in the combined winter quarters of two legions. He increased the pay of the soldiers one fourth, by the addition of three gold pieces each year. |
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17. Anon., The Acts of John, 54, 53 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 15 | 53. But the young man, when he beheld the unlooked-for raising of his father, and the saving of himself, took a sickle and mutilated himself, and ran to the house wherein he had his adulteress, and reproached her, saying: For thy sake I became the murderer of my father and of you two and of myself: there thou hast that which is alike guilty of all. For on me God hath had mercy, that I should know his power. |
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18. Justin, First Apology, 15, 29 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 14, 64, 66 | 29. And again [we fear to expose children], lest some of them be not picked up, but die, and we become murderers. But whether we marry, it is only that we may bring up children; or whether we decline marriage, we live continently. And that you may understand that promiscuous intercourse is not one of our mysteries, one of our number a short time ago presented to Felix the governor in Alexandria a petition, craving that permission might be given to a surgeon to make him an eunuch. For the surgeons there said that they were forbidden to do this without the permission of the governor. And when Felix absolutely refused to sign such a permission, the youth remained single, and was satisfied with his own approving conscience, and the approval of those who thought as he did. And it is not out of place, we think, to mention here Antinous, who was alive but lately, and whom all were prompt, through fear, to worship as a god, though they knew both who he was and what was his origin. |
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19. Anon., Acts of John, 54, 53 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 15 | 53. But the young man, when he beheld the unlooked-for raising of his father, and the saving of himself, took a sickle and mutilated himself, and ran to the house wherein he had his adulteress, and reproached her, saying: For thy sake I became the murderer of my father and of you two and of myself: there thou hast that which is alike guilty of all. For on me God hath had mercy, that I should know his power. |
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| 20. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 8.5.17 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 95 |
| 21. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 2.138, 3.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 14, 74 |
| 22. Clement of Alexandria, Christ The Educator, 2.52 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 65 |
| 23. Hermas, Visions, 2.2.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 55 |
| 24. Origen, Homilies On Ezekiel, 1.11 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 13 |
| 25. Origen, Commentary On Matthew, 15.1.34, 15.2.61-15.2.66, 15.3, 15.3.1-15.3.4, 15.3.8-15.3.38, 15.3.40, 15.3.104-15.3.106 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 13, 14, 15, 16, 41, 58, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67 |
26. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 6.8 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 14 | 6.8. At this time while Origen was conducting catechetical instruction at Alexandria, a deed was done by him which evidenced an immature and youthful mind, but at the same time gave the highest proof of faith and continence. For he took the words, There are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake, in too literal and extreme a sense. And in order to fulfill the Saviour's word, and at the same time to take away from the unbelievers all opportunity for scandal, — for, although young, he met for the study of divine things with women as well as men, — he carried out in action the word of the Saviour.,He thought that this would not be known by many of his acquaintances. But it was impossible for him, though desiring to do so, to keep such an action secret.,When Demetrius, who presided over that parish, at last learned of this, he admired greatly the daring nature of the act, and as he perceived his zeal and the genuineness of his faith, he immediately exhorted him to courage, and urged him the more to continue his work of catechetical instruction.,Such was he at that time. But soon afterward, seeing that he was prospering, and becoming great and distinguished among all men, the same Demetrius, overcome by human weakness, wrote of his deed as most foolish to the bishops throughout the world. But the bishops of Caesarea and Jerusalem, who were especially notable and distinguished among the bishops of Palestine, considering Origen worthy in the highest degree of the honor, ordained him a presbyter.,Thereupon his fame increased greatly, and his name became renowned everywhere, and he obtained no small reputation for virtue and wisdom. But Demetrius, having nothing else that he could say against him, save this deed of his boyhood, accused him bitterly, and dared to include with him in these accusations those who had raised him to the presbyterate.,These things, however, took place a little later. But at this time Origen continued fearlessly the instruction in divine things at Alexandria by day and night to all who came to him; devoting his entire leisure without cessation to divine studies and to his pupils.,Severus, having held the government for eighteen years, was succeeded by his son, Antoninus. Among those who had endured courageously the persecution of that time, and had been preserved by the Providence of God through the conflicts of confession, was Alexander, of whom we have spoken already as bishop of the church in Jerusalem. On account of his pre-eminence in the confession of Christ he was thought worthy of that bishopric, while Narcissus, his predecessor, was still living. |
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| 27. Nag Hammadi, The Sentences of Sextus, 12, 13, 230a, 230a-231, 230a-240, 230b, 231, 233, 239, 273, 274a, 321, 66, 82, 274 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 67, 68 |
| 28. Origen, Against Celsus, 8.30.9-8.30.13 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 13, 16, 58 |
| 29. Porphyry, Letter To Marcella, 3, 33, 7, 34 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 61, 67, 68, 69, 95 |
| 30. Augustine, Confessions, a b c d\n0 "1.11" "1.11" "1 11"\n1 "2.9‒18" "2.9‒18" "2 9‒18"\n2 "10.65" "10.65" "10 65" (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Fuhrer and Soldo, Fallibility and Fallibilism in Ancient Philosophy and Literature (2024) 23 |
| 31. Basil of Seleucia, Sermo, pg 85.437 Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 65 |
| 32. Anon., Sententiae Pythagoreorum, 88 Tagged with subjects: •Self-mutilation Found in books: Pevarello, The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism (2013) 69 |
