“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
For sin besiegeth us on all sides, so that we cannot escape out. Cross references: : Rom. 6:4 ; Col. 3:8 ; Eph. 4:24 ; 1 Pet. 2:1 An applying of the former examples, whereby we ought to be stirred up to run the whole race, casting away all stops and impediments.