1 Corinthians 9:27 (WEB)
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
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Origen
“We, however, when we do abstain, do so because “we keep under our body, and bring it into subjection,” and desire “to mortify our members that are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence;” and we use every effort to “mortify the deeds of the flesh.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ix. 27.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“But I so run, not as uncertainty; I fight, not as one beating the air; but I make my body livid, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, when preaching to others, I may myself be rendered a castaway.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 24–27.
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Jerome
“Paul, the chosen vessel,chastised his body, and brought it into subjection, lest after preaching to others he himself should be found a reprobate, andhe tells that there was given to him “a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet” him.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“The chosen vessel who had Christ’s name ever on his lips kept under his body and brought it into subjection.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“…of the flesh and the allurements of vice keeps under his body and brings it into subjection, lest when he has preached to others he may himself be a castaway; and yet, for all that, sees another law in his members warring against the law of his mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin; if after…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“The apostle macerates his body and brings it into subjection to the soul lest what he has preached to others he should himself fail to keep; and can a mere girl whose passions are kindled by abundance of food, can a mere girl afford to be confident of her own chastity?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“And again: Therefore “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.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“…be heard to say: “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;” and “It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine;” and “I humbled my soul with fasting;” and “thou wilt make all” my “bed in” my “sickness;” and “Thy…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“Even the apostle kept under his body and brought it into subjection, lest having preached to others he might himself become a castaway.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Does not Paul seem to you to have avenged Stephen on his own body, as he speaks, “I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection.” [1 Cor 9:27]” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“But now is necessity sweet unto me, and against this sweetness do I fight, lest I be enthralled; and I carry on a daily war by fasting, oftentimes “bringing my body into subjection,” and my pains are expelled by pleasure.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“…all that is servile and brutish in you, able now too to fight, not as “they who beat the air, but chastening your bodies, and bringing them into subjection.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment““Why dost thou tell out my judgments?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“Hear the Apostle ruling the earth: “I do not so fight as if beating air, but I chasten my body, and bring it into captivity, lest perchance preaching to other men, I myself become a reprobate.”…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment“The apostle therefore puts his candle on a candlestick, when he says, “So fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I preach to others, I myself should be found a castaway.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 26, 27. Ne forte aliis predicans…invenir. Vulgate, Ne forte cum aliis prædicaverim…efficir.
Read the whole comment“Look at the Apostle Paul; does it not seem to you that he avenges the martyr Stephen in his own person, when he says: “So fight I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 26, 27. Sevituti subjicio; Vulgate, in servitutem redigo.
Read the whole comment“In such she says it, when they deliberate whether to undertake such a ministry, for which they do not consider themselves qualified, so as to discharge it blamelessly, and so as not, after preaching to others, themselves to become castaways.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
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Gregory the Great
“…fearful, he said, I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, while preaching to others, I myself should become a castaway (1 Cor. ix. 27).” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“And again: “I chastise my body and bring it into servitude, lest whilst I preach to others, I myself become a castaway.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“For if the flesh is subject to the soul of a just man as it is written: “I chastise my body and bring it into subjection;” how much more is it subject to the Godhead, of Which it is said: “For all things serve Thee”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“For he glories in it, saying: “But I chasten my body, and bring it into bondage, lest, after preaching to others, I myself should be found reprobate.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…after the example of Paul, who said, ‘I keep under my body and bring it into subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.’” — editor's note: Rom. v. 3; 1 Cor. ix. 27.
Read the whole comment“…us give all diligence to this good proclamation, and like those who contend on the race course, let us vie with each other in observing the purity of the fast, by watchfulness in prayers, by study of the Scriptures, by distributing to the poor, and let us be at peace with our enemies.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ix. 24–27.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore more and more he repressed the body and kept it in subjection, lest haply having conquered on one side, he should be dragged down on the other.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27; Ath. (with many fathers and uncials) appears to have read ὑποπιάζω, the reading which is followed by the Authorised Version.
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John Chrysostom
“If Paul fears, “lest that by any means, when he had preached to others, he himself should be a castaway” ( 1 Cor. ix. 27 ); and he who had been so approved is afraid lest he should become disapproved: what pardon shall we have who are already disapproved, if we have…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“He “keeps under” his “body” ( 1 Cor. ix. 27 ), so as to be able to enter.” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“Wherefore that man will give me full proof of his cure who, after rejecting grace for the sake of the indulgence of the flesh, has then, through bruising of the flesh and the enslaving of it by means of self control, abandoned the pleasures whereby he was subdued.” — editor's note: cf. 1 Cor. ix. 27.
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Tertullian
“Nay, rather, by the virtue of contemning food He was initiating “the new man” into “a severe handling” of “the old,” that He might show that (new man) to the devil, again seeking to tempt him by means of food, (to be) too strong for the whole power of hunger.” — editor's note: Comp. Eph. iv. 22, 23; and, for the meaning of sugillationem (“severe handling”), comp. 1 Cor. ix. 27, where St. Paul’s word ὑπωπιάζω (="I smite under the…
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He is bold in spirit, and buffets his body, throwing it as an antagonist.” — editor's note: Ib. ix. 27.
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John Cassian
““I,” said he, “so run, not as uncertainly; I so fight, not as one that beateth the air: but I chastise my body and bring it into subjection, lest by any means when I have preached to others I myself should be a castaway.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 26, 27.
Read the whole comment“…the lists of battle and begin by saying with the Apostle: “I so fight, not as one that beateth the air, but I chastise my body and bring it into subjection,” that when this conflict is ended we may once more be able to say with him: “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 26, 27.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…non ab omnibus abstinens, sed continenter utens iis, quæ utenda judicavit, “illi quidera ut corruptibilem coronam accipiant; nos autem ut incorruptibilem,” in lucta vincentes, non autem sine pulvere coronam accipientes.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 27, 25.
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Cross-references · 28
Cited together in Life of Antony §5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.1.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.1.
Cited together in Life of Antony §5.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.6.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.14.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.1.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 5:43–48 (5) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Against Celsus V.49.
Cited together in Exposition of the Christian Faith III.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.
Cited together in Letters Letter 188.