Know you not that they who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
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Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
"Do ye not know "says he, "that they which run in a race, run all indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain. ""Now they do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.".
And they, indeed, that they may receive a corruptible crown; but ye an incorruptible.".
In the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "Know ye not, that they which run in a race run indeed all, although one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And those indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.".
And to return to the praise of martyrdom, there is a word of the blessed Paul, who says; "Know ye not that they who run in a race strive many, but one receiveth the prize? But do ye so run, that all of you may obtain."
