The meaning of Exercise, bodily in the Bible
(From Easton's Bible Dictionary)

(I Timothy 4:8). An ascetic mortification of the flesh and denial of personal gratification (Compare Colossians 2:23) to which some sects of the Jews, especially the Essenes, attached importance.

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