Thomas Carlyle
once wrote to a friend, "It is long years since I first saw the meaning of humility, and it came on me like water on one dying of thirst, and I felt it, and still feel it, to be the beginning of moral life.
In
her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, refers to modern Pharaohs who today, as in the time of Moses, hold men enslaved to the beliefs of material sense.
From
his words it would seem that the Apostle Paul was often confronted with the intellectual opposition and resistance to his teachings of the Greek and Roman philosophers, the scholars of that time.
