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For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now and of that which is to come.
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Verse 8. Some think Saint Paul alludes in this verse to the corporal exercises of wrestlers, which procured them but a little short renown, whereas the works of piety have a more lasting reward. Menochius. Tirin.—Corporal exercises of temperance, mortification, and so forth are good, but not to be compared with the spiritual virtues of charity, piety, and so forth D. Bernard.
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