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The Olympic games generally opened with races, and were celebrated at hrst with no other exercise. The lists or hermes bags course where the athletse exercised themselves in running, was at first but one stadium in length, or about six hundred feet and from this measure it took its name, and was called the stadium, whatever might be its extent. This, in the language of Paul, speaking of the Christians' course, was "the race which was set before them," determined by public authority and carefully measured. On each side of the stadium and its extremity, ran an ascent or kind of terrace, covered with seats and benches, upon which the spectators were seated, an innumerable mu 11itude collected from all parts of Greece, to which the apostle thus alludes in his figurative description of the Christian life "Seeing we are compassed about with hermes birkin so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight.

" Pajcton. Ver. 4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. The exercise of boxing was sometimes performed by combatants, having in their hands balls of stone or lead. At first their hands and arms were naked and unguarded, but afterward surrounded with thongs of leather, called cestus, which were used both as defensive arms, and to annoy the enemy, being hermes kelly filled with plummets of lead and iron, to add force to the blows. This was one of the rudest and most dangerous of the gymnastic combats, because the antagonists ran the hazard either of being disabled, or losing their lives.

They sometimes fell down dead or dying upon the sand or they quitted the fight with a countenance so disfigured, that it was not easy to know themselves carrying away with them hermes outlet the sad marks of their vigorous resistance, as bruises and contusions in the face, the loss of an eye, their teeth knocked out, their jaws hermes handbags broken, or some more considerable fracture.