 Lipsius devotes considerable attention to this important Stoic dictum. Because there were only a few extant ancient testimonies, confusion arose as to the precise meaning of man’s supreme good. Even Stobaeus had acknowledged that “to live according to nature” could be the same as “living according to the Good” and “living well.” Lipsius correctly understood that ‘living in accordance with nature’ was equivalent to “living according to virtue,” so that the goal was harmony with nature, with the universal law of the world and with the particular rational nature of man. In his Christianized reading of Stoic ethics, however, Lipsius adopted the more religious phrasing of Seneca and Epictetus, so that “living according to nature or virtue” became “living according to right reason,” which the Stoics identified with Zeus or God, “the lord and ruler of everything” (Manuductio II.16, referring to Diogenes Laertius VII.88). Consequently, the wise man was the one who obeyed God.