sentences:  In this usage the twofold application—to the mode of living and the results attained—which marks the later theological implication of the term is clearly discernible.From the arena of physical contests the word easily passed over to that of spiritual struggles, and pre-Christian writers speak of the "askesis" of the soul or of virtue—the discipline of the soul, or the exercise in virtue.But the physical idea, no less than the moral, underlies the meaning of the term in medieval Christian parlance.