24. Know ye not —The Isthmian games, in which the foot race was a leading one, were of course well known, and a subject of patriotic pride to the Corinthians, who lived in the immediate neighborhood. These periodical games were to the Greeks rather a passion than a mere amusement: hence their suitableness as an image of Christian earnestness. in a race — Greek, "in a race course." all . . . one —Although we knew that one alone could be saved, still it Would be well worth our while to run [BENGEL]. Even in the Christian race not "all" who enter on the race win ( 1 Corinthians 10:1-5 ). So run, that ye may obtain —said parenthetically. These are the words in which the instructors of the young in the exercise schools ( gymnasia ) and the spectators on the race course exhorted their pupils to stimulate them to put forth all exertions. The gymnasium was a prominent feature in every Greek city. Every candidate had to take an oath that he had been ten months in training, and that he would violate none of the regulations ( 1 Corinthians 10:1-46.10.5- : ; compare 1 Timothy 4:7 ; 1 Timothy 4:8 ). He lived on a strict self-denying diet, refraining from wine and pleasant foods, and enduring cold and heat and most laborious discipline. The "prize" awarded by the judge or umpire was a chaplet of green leaves; at the Isthmus, those of the indigenous pine, for which parsley leaves were temporarily substituted ( 1 Corinthians 9:25 ). The Greek for "obtain" is fully obtain. It is in vain to begin, unless we persevere to the end ( Matthew 10:22 ; Matthew 24:13 ; Revelation 2:10 ). The "so" expresses, Run with such perseverance in the heavenly course, as "all" the runners exhibit in the earthly "race" just spoken of: to the end that ye may attain the prize. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-25" class="com-number"
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