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| 1. Aeschylus | 456 BC |
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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks
' ... kicks against the pricks'
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| 2. Aratus | 240 BC |
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For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring
' ... for we are indeed his offspring'
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| 3. Enoch, book of | 100 BC |
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And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. NOTE: A direct quote from the Book of Enoch which is not a pagan text, but an Apocryphal text (extra-Biblical).
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| 4. Epimenides | 600 BC |
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For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring
' ... for in thee we live and move and have our being'
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| 5. Euripedes, Aiolos | 406 BC |
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Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."
'Bad company ruins good morals'
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| 6. Euripedes, Bacchae | 406 BC . |
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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks
'You are mortal, he is a god. If I were you, I would control my rage and sacrifice to him, rather than kick against the pricks'
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| 7. Festus | 62 AD. |
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He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
Paul had his final hearing before Porcius Festus. Festus sought to induce Paul to go to Jerusalem for trial; Paul appealed to the Roman official. Was Paul trying to impress Festus, the pagan Roman official?
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| 8. Menander, Thais | 290 BC |
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Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."
'Bad company ruins good morals'
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| 9. Philo | 50 AD. |
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God
'Now the image of God is the Word, by which all the world was made'
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| 10. Seneca | 65 AD |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a prodigious writer. His legacy includes satires, tragedies, several books on natural phenomena, and at least 124 insightful letters (Epistulae morales) and essays on philosophy, life, human destiny, clemency and virtue.
It is believed the New Testament Bible may have some content copied from the writings of Seneca.
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| 11. Publius Terentius Afer | 159 BC |
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But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God
'But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home'
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| 12. Thucydides | 400 BC |
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Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
[3] The tribute they received from all the barbarian nations and from the cities of Greece, in the reign of Seuthes (who reigned after Sitalces and made the most of it), was in gold and silver, by estimation, four hundred talents by year. And presents of gold and silver came to as much more, besides vestures, both wrought and plain, and other furniture presented not only to him but also to all the men of authority and Odrysian nobility about him.
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