When these words are left out, the former and latter sentence will be both of a piece, and more resembling each other: for metecein may be understood after the first epÆ elpidi, as well as after the last." "But one receiveth the prize?" The unyielding and obstinate mind is always a little mind: a want of true greatness always produces obstinacy and peevishness. dblquote See 1 Corinthians 4:8. ldblquote Am I not free? Verse 9. RUNNING; ver. He waved this part of his Christian liberty, for the good of others. ix. To prevent any person of bad character from entering the list at the Olympic games, the kerux, or herald, was accustomed to proclaim aloud in the theater when the combatant was brought forth: mh toutou kathgorei; wste auton aposkeuasamenon thv douleiav thn upoyian outwv eiv touv agwnav embhnai: Who can accuse this man? 24: KNOW ye not, &c. 10: The workman is worthy of his meat. This and the 18th verse have been variously translated: Sir Norton Knatchhull and, after him, Mr. Wakefield translate the two passages thus: For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if I am intrusted with an office without my consent? "But one receiveth the prize?" Be as much in earnest to get to heaven as others are to gain their prize; and, although only one of them can win, all of you may obtain. If a man who does not labour takes his maintenance from the Church of God, it is not only a domestic theft but a sacrilege. For which he gives this reason: "that being free from all suspicion of being in a state of slavery, (and elsewhere he says of being a thief, or of corrupt morals,) he might enter the lists with credit." It was not to get money, influence, or honour, but to save SOULS! 25. Hoary with age, Entellus stands his ground; But with his warping body wards the wound; His head and watchful eye keep even pace, While Dares traverses and shifts his place; And, like a captain who beleaguers round Some strong-built castle, on a rising ground, Views all the approaches with observing eyes; This, and that other part, in vain he tries, And more on industry than force relies. "For though I be free" - Although I am under no obligation to any man, yet I act as if every individual had a particular property in me, and as if I were the slave of the public. Constitit in digitos extemplo arrectus uterque, Brachiaque ad superas interritus extulit auras. For what then shall I be rewarded? But we each have a critical question to answer: what rights are you willing to sacrifice for the cause of Jesus? As the husbandman plows and sows in hope, and the God of providence makes him a partaker of his hope, let the upright preachers of God's word take example and encouragement by him. Be as much in earnest to get to heaven as others are to gain their prize; and, although only one of them can win, all of you may obtain. Such an obvious truth should hardly need stating. It was probably in reference to the same moderate and reasonable desire that the provision made for the clergy in this country was called a living; and their work for which they got this living was called the cure of souls. See an ordinance to this effect in the tract Shabbath, fol. Not to observe that it would have raised suspicion to have carried about even women-servants, and much more other women to whom they were not married, for which the apostles would never give any occasion. "I am made all things to all men" - I assumed every shape and form consistent with innocency and perfect integrity; giving up my own will, my own way, my own ease, my own pleasure, and my own profit, that I might save the souls of all. k. t. l. "Do you wish to gain the prize at the Olympic games?-Consider the requisite preparations and the consequences: you must observe a strict regimen; must live on food which you dislike; you must abstain from all delicacies; must exercise yourself at the necessary and prescribed times both in heat and in cold; you must drink nothing cooling; take no wine as formerly; in a word, you must put yourself under the directions of a pugilist, as you would under those of a physician, and afterwards enter the lists. Multa viri nequicquam inter se vulnera jactant, Multa cavo lateri ingeminant, et pectore vasto Dant sonitus; erratque aures et tempora circum Crebra manus; duro crepitant sub vulnere malae, Stat gravis Entellus, nisuque immotus eodem, Corpore tela modo atque oculis vigilantibus exit. 4. 26, x17: So fight I, not as one that beateth the air; outw pukteuw, so fist I, so I hit; but I keep my body under; upwpiazw, I hit in the eye, I make the face black and blue. If Paul was willing to deny himself such an important right for the good of the gospel and the Corinthian Christians, then should not also the Corinthian Christians deny their “right” to eat meat sacrificed to idols for the same good? in Inscript. But the people who are most liable to think thus of their ministers, are those who are unwilling to grant the common necessaries of life to those who watch over them in the Lord. 1.It signifies ignorantly; I do not run like one ignorant of what he is about, or of the laws of the course; I know that there is an eternal life; I know the way that leads to it; and I know and feel the power of it. He had a glorious prize, an incorruptible crown, in view. 27. Who had laboured so much for your good, or done like service among you? Deuteronomy Arte Poet., ver. "They do it to obtain a corruptible crown" - The crown won by the victor in the Olympian games was made of the wild olive; in the Pythian games of laurel; in the Nemean games of parsley; and in the Isthmian games of the pine. HE most absolutely states the possibility of the case: and who has a right to call this in question? And secondly, we find that their wives were persons of the same faith; for less can never be implied in the word sister. Such a person as St. Paul is a blessing wherever he goes: on the contrary, the obstinate, hoggish man, is either a general curse, or a general cross; and if a preacher of the Gospel, his is a burthensome ministry.
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