Clement of Alexandria, on 1Cor 9:27

“But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.”

“"I buffet my body and bring it into subjection." "For everyone who wishes to take part in a contest is continent in all things" (the words "he is continent in all things" really mean that, though he does not abstain from everything, yet he is self-controlled on such things as he thinks fit). "They do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible," as if we conquer in the struggle, though there is no crown for us if we do not put up any fight at all.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.