mathos). And Epictetus (1.1.10–13) summed the Greco-Roman preachers’ counsel: Now what does God say? “Epictetus, if there had been any other way, I would have made that little body of yours and your tiny holdings free and unencumbered. But things being as they are—let it not escape you—this body is not your own but merely some cleverly compounded clay. Yet, since I was not able to give you the other, we have provided you with some small part of ourselves, namely the faculty of choice and refusal,