Scripture parallel. "That ye abstain from meat offered to idols, and from blood." (Acts xv. 29.)
18. "Take nothing with them, neither meat or drink, nor anything necessary for the wants of the body."
Scripture parallel. "Take nothing for your journey; neither staves nor script; neither bread, neither money, neither have two coats apiece."
19. "They expounded the literal sense of the Holy Scriptures by allegory."
Scripture parallel. "Which things are an allegory." (Gal. iv. 24.)
20. "They abjured the pleasures of the body, not desiring mortal offspring, and they renounced marriage, believing it to be detrimental to a holy life." (Mich.)
Scripture parallel. It will be recollected that neither Jesus nor Paul ever married, and that they discouraged the marriage relation. Christ says, "They that shall be counted worthy of that world and the resurrection neither marry nor are given in marriage." And Paul says, "The unmarried careth for the things of the Lord." (i Cor. vii. 32.)
21. "They strove to disengage their minds entirely from the world."
Scripture parallel. "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
22. "Devoting themselves to the Lord, they provide not for future subsistence."