thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against
my will, a dispensation is committed to me.

9:18. What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver
the gospel without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

9:19. For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of
all, that I might gain the more.

9:20. And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews:

9:22. To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became
all things to all men, that I might save all.

9:23. And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be made
partaker thereof.

9:24. Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but
one receiveth the prize. So run that you may obtain.

9:25. And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself
from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible
crown: but we an incorruptible one.

9:26. I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as
one beating the air.

9:27. But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps,
when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

I chastise, etc... Here St. Paul shews the necessity of self-denial and
mortification, to subdue the flesh, and its inordinate desires.

1 Corinthians Chapter 10

By the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not to build too
much upon favours received but to avoid their sins and fly from the
service of idols and from things offered to idols.

10:1. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were
all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea.

10:2. And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea:

In Moses... Under the conduct of Moses, they received baptism in figure,
by passing under the cloud, and through the sea; and they partook of the
body and blood of Christ in figure, by eating of the manna, (called here
a spiritual food because it was a figure of the true bread which comes
down from heaven,) and drinking the water, miraculously brought out of
the rock, called here a spiritual rock, because it was also a figure of
Christ.

10:3. And did all eat the same spiritual food:

10:4. And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the
spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)

10:5. But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were
overthrown in the desert.

10:6. Now these things were don