him,9 selected a list of virtues which should be found in a healthy Christian life. The practice of making lists of virtues was already well established among the Stoics, who called it a prokopē, ‘moral advance’. Bo Reicke, commenting on this adaptation of Stoic material, says rightly, ‘he did not wish to Hellenize the church, but only employed such expressions because they would be familiar to his readers’. The great difference between Stoic and Christian ethics is that the latter are not the unaided