Seneca Had a 'Christian' View of the World

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"Life is not a dainty business." Thus wrote the Roman philosopher Annaeus Seneca Luciau, known to history as Seneca, a contemporary of the apostles Peter and Paul.

A philosopher, theologian and statesman, Seneca was the tutor to the Emperor Nero, and he assisted in the government of the Roman Empire while the young Nero was badly groomed for high office. But Seneca is today remembered as a classical writer who unknowingly paved the way for the acceptance of Christianity by later generations.

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Seneca Had a 'Christian' View of the World

Seneca taught that all humans were on a pilgrimage towards their eventual death, and that that fact must be accepted with sober reality, for only by accepting the world as it really is lies the path of wisdom. On the path of life, it is inevitable that each of us will face trials and many difficulties. These must be ...

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