has nothing to do with obscurantism. The cure for false knowledge is not less knowledge, but more. 6. Third in the list comes self-control (enkrateia). This is to be exercised not only in food and drink, but in every aspect of life. The word is not common in the New Testament (though it comes in Paul’s list of virtues in Gal. 5:23) but, like goodness above, it was highly prized in Greek moral philosophy. It meant controlling the passions instead of being controlled by them. Aristotle12 saw through
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