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1Ti 4:8. Ἡ σωματικὴ γυμνασία, bodily exercise) and that, whether violent or pleasant.-πρὸς ὀλίγον, is profitable to but a short extent) viz. its benefit extends only to the private fortune, to one’s reputation, to one’s enjoyment, to the promotion of long life; and therefore it is terminated in this life of the body. Timothy, as a young man, seems to have sometimes used some bodily exercise [ch. 1Ti 5:23], which Paul does not so much forbid as not praise. He mixes up a similar admonition, salutary to a young man, with the same argument against profane doctrines, 2Ti 2:22.-πρὸς πάντα, unto all things) in the case of body and soul.-ἐπαγγελίαν, promise) on which hope (‘trust’) is brought to bear, 1Ti 4:10. Whatever does not serve this purpose is scarcely profitable.-ζωῆς τῆς νῦν, of the life that now is) the advantage of which they who exercise the body seem in other respects to consult.