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Verse 1 Corinthians 9:27. _BUT I KEEP UNDER MY BODY_, c.] This is an
allusion, not only to _boxers_, but also to _wrestlers_ in the same
games, as we learn from the word υπωπιαζω, which signifies to...
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BUT I KEEP UNDER MY BODY - (ὑπωπιάζω hupōpiazō). This
word occurs in the New Testament only here and in Luke 18:5, “Lest
by her continual coming she ‘weary’ me.” The word is derived
probably from...
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6. PAUL'S GRACIOUS EXAMPLE.
CHAPTER 9
_ 1. The Apostle's rights. (1 Corinthians 9:1)._
2. He waives his rights for the Gospel's sake. (1 Corinthians 9:15).
3. The race-course and the crown. ...
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1 CORINTHIANS 9. This chapter is not a digression, and is not
primarily concerned with a vindication of Paul's apostolic status and
rights. He enforces his plea that the enlightened should not ride
ro...
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THE UNCLAIMED PRIVILEGES (1 Corinthians 9:1-14)...
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Are you not aware that those who run in the stadium all run, but only
one receives the prize? So run that you may win the prize. Now every
athlete in the games practises complete self-discipline. They...
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_but I keep under my body_ Literally, I STRIKE UNDER THE EYE, I BEAT
BLACK AND BLUE. So the ancient Latin version of Irenæus renders it
_Corpus meum lividum facio_. The Vulgate, less forcibly, _castig...
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Exhortation to Self-restraint
24. _Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one
receiveth the prize?_ Not that this is the case in the Christian
course, but that each should manifest the...
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EXHORTATION TO SELF-RESTRAINT...
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ὙΠΩΠΙΆΖΩ. Literally, I STRIKE UNDER THE EYE, or I BEAT BLACK
AND BLUE. So the ancient Latin version of Irenaeus renders it _Corpus
meum lividum facio_. The Vulgate, less forcibly, _castigo_. Tyndale,...
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_PAUL RAN THE RACE WELL 1 CORINTHIANS 9:24-27:_ Paul understood that
there was a race to run or a fight to win. In this section of
scripture he gave a second reason for practicing self-restraint. The...
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ΎΠΩΠΙΆΖΩ (G5299) _praes. ind. act._ подбивать
глаз, ставиться синяк (Schrage).
ΔΟΥΛΑΓΩΓΏ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΥΛΑΓΩΓΈΩ
(G1396) порабощать, делать рабом или
обращаться как с рабом. Два этих гл.
изо...
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DISCOURSE: 1968
THE MANNER IN WHICH ST. PAUL SOUGHT FOR HEAVEN
1 Corinthians 9:26. _I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight
I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
Reasons For Relinquishment (1 Corinthians 9:19-27)
19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to
all, that I might win the more. 20To the Jews I bec...
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But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by
any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway. KEEP UNDER, [ hupoopiazoo (G5299)] - bruise under the ey...
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25 Contestants in the Grecian games had to take an oath that they had
been ten months in training, and that they would violate none of the
regulations. They lived on a prescribed diet and exercised se...
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KEEP UNDER, etc.] RV' I buffet my body and bring it into bondage.' The
body is the seat of temptation to self-indulgence. One great object of
fasting and abstinence is to secure this control over our...
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THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-DISCIPLINE. St. Paul illustrates the need of
this self-denial which he has been inculcating from the Greek games or
athletic sports, some of the most noted of which (the Isthmia...
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_(b) Food offered to Idols
(ii) St. Paul's own Example_
St. Paul has appealed to the 'enlightened' converts at Corinth to give
up for the sake of others a practice which they might otherwise have
had...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 9
THE RIGHTS OF AN *APOSTLE 9:1-27
PAUL IS A REAL *APOSTLE 9:1-2
V1 You know that I am free. You know that I am an *apostle. I have
seen...
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BUT I KEEP UNDER MY BODY. — Better, _but I bruise my body._ The word
is very strong, and implies to beat the flesh until it becomes black
and blue. The only other place the word occurs is in Luke 18:5...
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CHAPTER 14
NOT ALL WHO RUN WIN
IN the preceding part of this chapter Paul has proved his right to
claim remuneration from those to whom he preached the Gospel, and he
has also given his reasons for d...
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§ 30. PAUL'S ASCETICISM. The last words of § 29 indicate that the
writer feels his own salvation to be bound up in his mission to his
fellowmen. The self-denial practised for the latter of these objec...
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“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._ 1 Corinthians 15:32)”; the Ap. feels
hi...
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The fully-attested reading ὑπωπιάζω (from ὑπὸ and ὤψ,
to hit _under the eye_) continues the pugilistic metaphor and suits
Paul's vehemence; “contundo corpus meum” (Bz [1400]), “lividum
facio” (Cod. Cl...
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“UNDER BONDAGE TO ALL”
1 Corinthians 9:16
Paul's one aim was to _gain men._ He uses the words repeatedly. To
gain one more for his Lord, he would forego comfort, emolument, and
well-earned repose. He...
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The words, "my defence to them that examine me is this," reveal the
opposition to him in Corinth. The two words, "defence" and "examine,"
are purely legal, and are in the language of the courts of jus...
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Controlling Self To Receive The Prize
All the talk about sacrifice reminded Paul of the sacrifice and
self-control necessary to reach the heavenly goal. He used the
illustration of runners who sacrifi...
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But I keep under my (t) body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest
that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be
(u) a castaway.
(t) The old man which strives against the Spir...
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_I chastise, &c. Here St. Paul shews the necessity of self-denial and
mortifications to subdue the flesh, and its inordinate desires.
(Challoner) --- Not even the labours of an apostle are exemptions...
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“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that
beateth the air: 27. But I buffet my body, and lead it captive: lest,
when I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.”...
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II. THE QUESTION CONSIDERED FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE SALVATION OF THE
STRONG THEMSELVES. 9:23-10:22.
As Paul concluded the preceding development by giving his own example,
he introduces the following...
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REFLECTIONS
GREAT Apostle of our Lord Jesus Christ! The Church of God will hail
thee, in all generations, as the faithful servant of the Lord. Truly
thou didst see the Lord Jesus, and didst become a w...
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(24) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one
receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. (25) And every man
that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they d...
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As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle
give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle
speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
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27._But I keep under my body _(516) Budaeus reads _Observo _; (_I keep
a watch over_;) but in my opinion the Apostle has employed the word
ὑπωπιάζειν (517) here, to mean _treating in a servile
manner...
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The apostle was exposed to the accusations of false teachers, who
asserted that he carried on his evangelisation and his labours from
interested motives, and that he took the property of Christians,
a...
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BUT I KEEP UNDER MY BODY,.... The allusion is still to fighters, who,
by cuffing and boxing, give their antagonists black and blue eyes,
which is the proper signification of the word here used: so it...
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But I keep under my body, and bring _it_ into subjection: lest that by
any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway.
Ver. 27. _My body_] My body of sin in the whole man, n...
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_I therefore_ The reward being so great; _so run, not as uncertainly_
For I see the goal I am to run to, I keep it continually in view, and
run straight to it, casting off every weight, and not regard...
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KEEP UNDER MY BODY; literally, beat it in the face, after the manner
of a boxer. This represents the severe discipline to which he
subjected his appetites and passions according to God's word.
Ministe...
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BUT I KEEP UNDER MY BODY AND BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION, LEST THAT BY
ANY MEANS, WHEN I HAVE PREACHED TO OTHERS, I MYSELF SHOULD BE A
CASTAWAY.
An attitude and a habit of self-denial such as Paul practi...
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The need of self-discipline:...
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Because of the lowliness and grace on the part of the apostle, such as
chapter 8 shows in the consideration of his brethren, there were some
who would use this as an occasion to belittle him. He made...
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BUT. BUFFET MY BODY, AND BRING IT INTO BONDAGE: LEST BY ANY MEANS,
AFTER THAT. HAVE PREACHED TO OTHERS,. MYSELF SHOULD BE REJECTED.
'but. buffet my body' -'to beat black and blue' (Robertson p. 149)...
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24-27 The apostle compares himself to the racers and combatants in
the Isthmian games, well known by the Corinthians. But in the
Christian race all may run so as to obtain. There is the greatest
enco...
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OLBGrk;
Here the apostle informs us how he ran, that he might not run
uncertainly; how he fought, so as he might not be like one beating the
air: I (saith he) KEEP UNDER MY BODY; AND BRING IT INTO SUB...
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but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage [The body, being, as
it is in part, the seat and organ of sin, has become the Biblical term
to express our whole sinful nature (Romans 8:13). Paul found...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Et ideo Paulus quoque: "Corpus meum," inquit, "castigo, et in
servitutem redigo; quoniam qui certat, omnia continet," hoc est, in
omnibus continet, non ab omni...
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1 Corinthians 9:27 But G235 discipline G5299 (G5719) my G3450 body
G4983 and G2532 subjection G1396 (G5719
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1 Corinthians 9:27. BUT (on the contrary) I BUFFET (or ‘beat down')
[1] MY BODY, AND BRING IT INTO BONDAGE as a slave into submission to
his master. When he says, ‘I buffet my body,' he plainly means...
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It was impossible for Christians in almost any Greek or Roman colony,
and least of all at Corinth, to avoid coming frequently in contact
with idolatrous practices in various and ensnaring forms. In wr...
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BUT I BUFFET MY BODY
(αλλα υπωπιαζω μου το σωμα). In Aristophanes,
Aristotle, Plutarch, from υπωπιον, and that from υπο and
οπς (in papyri), the part of the face under the eyes, a blow in the
face,...
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CASTAWAY
(Greek, "adokimos", "disapproved"). Greek, "dokimos", without the
private, "a", is translated "approved" in (Romans 14:18); (Romans
16:10); (1 Corinthians 11:19); ...
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1 Corinthians 9:24
The Race and the Prize.
I. The prize, in the contest that St. Paul speaks of, is a different
kind of prize from that which these Corinthians were seeking after in
their games. It w...
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The apostle Paul is here giving a description of the way in which he
made everything help toward the fulfillment of his desire to be a
faithful minister of Jesus Christ. He longed to be the means of
w...
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CONTENTS: Paul vindicates his apostleship. The method and reward of
true ministry and the support of the ministry.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Cephas, Barnabas, Moses.
CONCLUSION: It is no new thing for...
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1 Corinthians 9:1. _Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not
seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?_ Having
illustrated the legal customs of the jews respecting meats, he
introduc...
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AND BRING IT UNDER COMPLETE CONTROL. Paul accepts as necessary the
strict discipline of his own body, if he is to win the race. Compare 2
Corinthians 12:7; 1 Peter 4:1-2. TO KEEP FROM BEING REJECTED....
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_I keep under my body … lest … I myself should be a castaway._
KEEPING UNDER THE BODY
The body is a bad master though it may be a good servant. St. Paul
does not wish to be rid of it, but he desires...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 9:27 An athlete goes through
rigorous physical training in order to achieve victory. Paul endures
physical and emotional hardship to advance the gospel. (See v....
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 9:24 This extended athletic
metaphor would have been understood in Corinth. The city was the
location of the biennial Isthmian games, second in fame only to the
Oly...
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CHAPTER 9
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
i. He proceeds to show by his own example how offences are to be
avoided, and he says that he had refused to accept payment, or the
maintenance due to a preacher of...
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_But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection. I keep under_
means, says S. Ambrose, "I repress it by fastings;" "I wound it with
stripes," says S. Basil (_de Virginitate_); "I starve it," sa...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
1 Corinthians 9:24.—His own salvation is at stake as well as that of
his hearers. He must do all these things, not only as expedients which
for his hearers’ sakes may make him a succe...
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 9:1
The rights and the self denial of an apostle.
1 CORINTHIANS 9:1
An apostle's right to maintenance....
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to I Corinthians, chapter 9.
I could do a lot of things I don't do. The reason why I don't do them
is I do not want to be an offense unto a weaker brethren and destroy
his...
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1 Corinthians 13:1; 1 Corinthians 4:11; 1 Corinthians 4:12; 1
Corinthians 6:12;...
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I keep under [υ π ω π ι α ζ ω]. A feeble translation, and
missing the metaphor. The word means to strike under the eye; to give
one a black eye. It occurs elsewhere in the New Testament but once,
Luke...
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THE SEVEN CROWNS
1 Corinthians 9:24
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The possibility of winning a crown. There are two classes of
Christians: one is the carnal, the other is the spiritual. There are
some who...
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But I keep under my body — By all kinds of self denial. And bring it
into subjection — To my spirit and to God. The words are strongly
figurative, and signify the mortification of the body of sin, "by...
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The original word may be fitly rendered,. give myself blue eyes;
alluding to the olympic game of cuffing, in which the combatants were
wont with their blows to beat one another, till they made each ot...