“so run, that ye may obtain.” They had not then yet, as it seems, attained. And having said thus, he teaches them also the manner. Ver. 25. “And every man that striveth in the games is temperate in all things.” What is, “all things?” He doth not abstain from one and err in another, but he masters entirely gluttony and lasciviousness and drunkenness and all his passions. “For this,” saith he, “takes place even in the heathen games. For neither is excess of wine permitted to those who contend at the