These words, pivj — vopcou, are read in ABCD (A) G fg Vulg. Theb. But
Rec. Text omits the words with Memph. Syr. and Orig. 1,391 c ; 3,515 f,
4,166 d.— Ed
265
very well known to the Corinthians. — 1tTg, one) Although we knew, that one alone would be saved, still it would be well worth our while to run. [ For what will become of those , who never cease to defend themselves by the inactivity of others . Comp, x. 5. — V. g.] — ouru rp's^srs, ’Iva xaraXa/3?jre, so run that ye may obtain) Paul speaks of himself to the end of the chapter ; he does not yet exhort the Corinthians directly ; therefore he seems here to introduce into his discourse by a third party2 that sort of encouragement, which P. Faber, i. 2, Agonist, c. 32, shows that the judges of the combats, the instructors of the young in gym- nastics and the spectators were accustomed to give ; — also Cluy- sostom Horn, on the expression sav vuva ; and Caesarius, quaest. 29; for the words, he says , they say ,3 are more than once omitted. See ch. v. 13, xv. 32, 33; Eph. vi. 2 ; Col. ii. 21 ; Ps. cxxxvii. 3 ; Jer. ii. 25, li. 9. Therefore this is the sense here ; they say, so run , etc. ; and this clause belongs to the protasis, which is con- tinued at the beginning of the following verse, ourw, so , a particle expressive of praise as well as of exhortation, Phil. iv. 1. — rpe%ere, run) All are urged, as if each, not merely one, was to obtain the prize. — 7v a, that) to the end that.
25. Ilac, every man) There were many sorts of contests. — ds, but) an emphatic addition (Jcr/ra dig). The race was among those contests that were of a lighter description ; wrestling, to wrhich allusion is presently made, is among those that were more severe. — srobra, all things) supply xara, as to , throughout. — lyx^areusra/, is temperate) Those, who were to strive for the mastery, were distinguished by their admirable mode of living. See the same Faber, and the same Chrysostom de Sacerd., 1. 4, c. 2, at the end. — htfuoi) they , who run and wrestle. Christians had abandoned the public games. — <p6aprbv, corruptible) formed
1 TrcLVTiq. all ) Comp. x. 1. — V. g.
2 See Appendix, under the title Sermocinatio. “ So run that ye may
obtain” is not Paul’s direct exhortation to the Corinthians, but the language of the spectators of the games, etc., to the racers, quoted by Paul as apply- ing to himself. Comp. v. 26. Obliquely reference was meant to the Corinthians Ed.
3 Beng. means that Paul’s omitting, in the allusion or quotation, “ As the saying is,” does not militate against its being a quotation. For he elsewhere omits this express marking of quotations. — Ed.