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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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Verse 27. I chastise, and so forth Here Saint Paul shews the necessity of self-denial and mortification to subdue the flesh, and its inordinate desires. Challoner.—Not even the labours of an apostle are exemptions from voluntary mortification and penance.
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