Righteousness
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
righteousness · more righteous · righteous
in the texts
Stromata
The virtue of righteousness, attributed variously to barbarian peoples, mythological teachers, and scriptural wisdom.
"He who sows righteousness works faith.
And Hellanicus relates that the Hyperboreans dwell beyond the Rhipaean mountains, and are taught righteousness, not eating flesh but using acorns and the like;
And Hermippus of Berytus calls Chiron the Centaur "wise," concerning whom the author of the Titanomachy too says that he was the first to lead the race of mortals into righteousness, by showing oaths and glad sacrifices and the figures of Olympus.
Symposium
Moral quality debated in relation to money, the soul, gratitude, and crime avoidance.
Why, by giving them money.
Well, do they substitute thanks for money payment?
And do they repay you, he asked, the money that they get from you?