within the context of the previous athletic metaphor or not, the word clearly refers to God’s potential eschatological judgment on Paul (and also on the Corinthians).51 It suggests being rejected as unworthy by the ultimate judge. Philo describes the history of Israel after receiving the law with its “gentle instructions and exhortations” as well as “threats and warnings” through the use of the image of the athletic contests, and allegorically describes the defeated as “whole lives that fall, which