Ver. 25. πᾶς δὲ 6 ἀγωνιζόμενος κ.τ.λ.;: ‘But every combatant is temperate in everything—they, to be sure, that they may win a perishable garland; but we an imperishable.”’ The stress in the first clause lies on was, wavra—no competitor can afford to be self-indulgent in any- thing; in the second on ἐκεῖνοι, ἡμεῖς--- if they are so abstinent for so poor a prize, what should we be? For ten months before the contest in the Great Games, the athletes were required, under
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Pet. v. 4; Rev. ii. το, iii. 11, etc.; Mt. xxvii. 29, etc. -ow, 2 Tim. ii. 5. n Η.Ι. in Paul; Heb. xiii. 13; Lk. xx. 25; Isa. ili. 10, v. 13. ο Cf. q xiv.9; Eph. ii. 2; 1 Th. iv. 17; Acts xxii. 23; Rev. ix.
r 2 Cor. xi. 20; Acts v. 40, vi. 37, xxii.19; Mt. xxi. 35, etc. t N.T. 4.1.; Diodorus, and Longinus. ill Absol., xv. 11; Rom. x. 14 f.; 1 Pet. iii. το; similarly in Syn. Gospp.
1. 4, 23, ΠΠ]. 4. p Η./.; -Aos, xiv. 8; -οτης, i Tim. vi. 17.
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28; 2 Tim. iii. 8; Tit. i. 16; Heb. vi. 8.
oath, to follow a prescribed diet (avay- κοφαγία) and regimen (ἄσκησις): Pau- sanias V. 24. 9; Philostratus De Gymn., Ῥ. 4; Arrian-Epict., III. xv. 3, xxiii. 2; Xenoph. Symp. viii. 37; Horace, Ars Poet. 412 ff., ‘‘ Qui studet optatam cursu con- tingere metam, Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit, Abstinuit venere et vino.” ἐγκρατεύεται (see vii. 9) implies temper- ance in a positive degree—not mere ab- stinence, but vigorous control of appetite and passion ; πάντα is acc. of specifica- tion. The ‘‘ garland” of the victor in the Isthmian Games was of pine-leaves, at an earlier time of parsley, in the Olympian Games of wild-olive ; yet these were the most coveted honours in the whole Greek world.—9aprov and ἄφθαρ- τον are again contrasted in xv. 53.
Vv. 26, 27. ‘‘ Therefore I so run, in no uncertain fashion; so I ply my fists, not like one that beats the air.” ‘* So— as the context describes, and as you see me (cf. xv. 32)’’; the Ap. feels himself, while he writes, to be straining every nerve like the racer, striking home like the trained pugilist: for this graphic οὕτως, cf. xv. 11, Gal. i. 6, 2 Thess. iii. 17; the adv. would be otiose as mereante- cedent to &s.—roivuy (similarly τοίγαρ in τ Thess. iv. 8) brings in the prompt, emphatic inference drawn from the last clause: ‘‘ We are fighting for the im- mortal crown—I as a leader and exem- plar; surely then I make no false step in the course, I strike no random blows.” ἀδήλως is susceptible both of the objec- tive sense prevailing in cl. Gr., obscure, inconspicuous (preferred by Mr. and Gd. here, as though P. meant, ‘‘not keeping out of sight, in'the ruck”’; cf. xiv. 8); and (preferably) of the subjective sense, un- sure, without certain aim (Thuc., I. 2. 1; Plato, Symp. 181 D; Polybius)—‘“‘ ut non in incertum”’ (Bz.) ; "' scio quod petam et quomodo” (Bg.); πρὸς σκοπόν τινα βλέπων, οὐκ εἰκῇ καὶ µάτην (Cm.): cf. Phil. iii. 14. The image of the race suggests that of pugilism (πυκτεύω)’
m xv. 52; Rom. 1. 23; 1 Pet. . iii. 15. s Lk. xviii. u See viii. 9. v See i 23.