but when a contest arises, you must refer the decision to infidels?

But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.

But am beating my body under, and leading it captive, lest, by any means, - unto others, having proclaimed, the contest , I myself, should be rejected.

If, however, any one still thinks it right to contest the point-well, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.