We Must Strive in Order to Be Crowned. - ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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Chapter VII.—We Must Strive in Order to Be Crowned.

Wherefore, then, my brethren, let us struggle with all earnestness, knowing that the contest is [in our case] close at hand, and that many undertake long voyages to strive for a corruptible reward;⁴³⁶⁸

⁴³⁶⁸ Literally, “that many set sail for corruptible contests,” referring probably to the concourse at the Isthmian games.
yet all are not crowned, but those only that have laboured hard and striven gloriously. Let us therefore so strive, that we may all be crowned. Let us run the straight⁴³⁶⁹

⁴³⁶⁹ Or, “Let us place before us.”
course, even the race that is incorruptible; and let us in great numbers set out⁴³⁷⁰

⁴³⁷⁰ Or, “set sail.”
for it, and strive that we may be crowned. And should we not all be able to obtain the crown, let us at least come near to it. We must remember⁴³⁷¹

⁴³⁷¹ Literally, “know.”
that he who strives in the corruptible contest, if he be found acting unfairly,⁴³⁷²

⁴³⁷² Literally, “if he be found corrupting.”
is taken away and scourged, and cast forth from the lists. What then think ye? If one does anything unseemly in the incorruptible contest, what shall he have to bear? For of those who do not preserve the seal⁴³⁷³

⁴³⁷³ Baptism is probably meant.
[unbroken], [the Scripture] saith, “Their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh.”⁴³⁷⁴

⁴³⁷⁴ Isa. lxvi. 24.
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