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Bodily exercise (hē sōmatikē gumnasia). Gumnasia (from gumnazō), also a common old word, here only in N.T. So also sōmatikē (from sōma, body) in N.T. only here and Luk 3:22.
Profitable (ōphelimos). Another old word (from ōpheleō, to help, to profit), in N.T. only here, Tit 3:8; 2Ti 3:16.
For a little (pros oligon). “For little.” Probably extent in contrast to pros panta (for all things), though in Jam 4:14 it is time “for a little while.”
Which now is (tēs nun). “The now life.”
Of that which is to come (tēs mellousēs). “Of the coming (future) life.”