ARE YOU SEEKING THE FIVE CROWNS JESUS OFFERS?

"Crowns and Races”: The Mark of a Christian. Writing in about AD 125 Aristedes a Christian philosopher looked at the believers of his day and said: "They walk in all humility and kindness, and falsehood is not found among them, and they love one another. They despise not the widow and grieve not the orphan. He that hath distributeth liberally to him that hath not. If they see a stranger they bring him under their roof, and rejoice over him, as it were their own brother: for they call themselves brethren, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit and in God; but when one of their poor passes away from the world, and any of them see him, then he provides for his burial according to his ability; and if they hear that any of their numbers is imprisoned or oppressed for the name of their Messiah, all of them provide for his needs, and if it is possible he may be delivered, they deliver him. And if there is a man among them that is poor and needy, and they have not among them an abundance of necessaries, they fast two or three days that they may supply the needy with their necessary food."
"THE CHIEF DIFFERENT KINDS OF GAMES"
"The Race (Gk. stadion). Of the different games, the New Testament mentions three: racing, boxing, and wrestling. The race is mentioned most frequently."
"There were also three other chief games: throwing the discus (Gk. diskobolia); throwing the spear (Gk. akontismos), and jumping (Gk. halma). Often jumping, spear-throwing, quoit-throwing, racing, and wrestling were united and formed the so-called “five-fold contest” (Gk. pentathlon). He who conquered in this was especially honored."
"With the 25th Olympiad began chariot racing, with two or four horses. Then horse racing was introduced. There was a race in armor (Gk. hoplites dromos). The stadium was 600 feet in length."
"In each of the three pictures of athletic life as employed in the New Testament, there is prominent a special viewpoint of the spiritual life and effort.”
(FHA-33; 920823PM)
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