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Rh obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible." May not some recollection of these, his own words, have lived still in his mind when he wrote from Rome to Timothy, "I have fought the good fight;" or more literally, "I have striven in the glorious contest, I have finished the race; henceforth there is laid up for me the wreath of righteousness, which the Lord, the just judge, will award me in that day"?