ACC ~ Romans 6 v8

LIFE WILL COME IN THE FUTURE. ORIGEN: Paul writes that we shall live with him in order to show that, while death works in the present, life will come in the future. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

IF WE HAVE DIED WITH CHRIST. AMBROSIASTER: It is clear that those who have crucified the body, i.e., the world with its vices and lusts, die to the world and die together with Christ, and that they are also conformed to his eternal and saving life so that they might deserve to be made like Christ in his glory. But the flesh, i.e., the body, is crucified in such a way that the lusts which arise in it as a result of the sin in it, which comes from the transgression of the first man, are trampled underfoot. For the devil is crucified in our flesh; it is he who deceives us through the flesh. But note how the word flesh is sometimes to be understood as the world, i.e., the elements, sometimes as the human body and sometimes as the soul which follows corporeal vices. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

PELAGIUS: If we have not died with him we shall not live with him, because then we are not his members. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

THEODORET OF CYR: Those of us who were buried with Christ ought to die to sin, because we are waiting for the resurrection. INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

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