1 CORINTHIANS 9:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. — The athletic metaphor: competitors in the stadion (race) aim for the prize (brabeion). Only one wins, yet all run to win. Paul applies this to Christian life: trechō (run, pursue) in such a way as to obtain the prize. The metaphor embodies intensity and single-mindedness.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 9:24
Having pointed out the manifold usefulness of condescension and that this is the highest perfectness, and that he himself having risen higher than all towards perfection, or rather having gone beyond it by declining to receive, descended lower than all again; and having made known to us the times for each of these, both for the perfectness and for the condescension; he touches them more sharply in what follows, covertly intimating that this which was done by them and which…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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