ACC ~ Romans 8 v10

YOUR BODIES ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN. AMBROSIASTER: Paul asserts that the bodies of those whom the Holy Spirit has abandoned be-cause of sin are dead, nor does the feeling of their murder touch him, i.e., the Spirit. For the Spirit of God cannot sin. He is given for righteousness in order to make people righteous by his assistance.

If a believer returns to the life of the flesh, the Holy Spirit will leave him and he will die in his unrighteousness. In saying “the body” Paul means that the whole person will die because of sin. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

CHRYSOSTOM: Paul is not saying here that the Spirit is Christ but is showing rather that anyone who has the Spirit has Christ as well. For where the Spirit is, there Christ is also. Wherever one person of the Trinity is present, the whole Trinity is present too. For the Trinity is undivided and has a perfect unity in itself. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 13.

AUGUSTINE: Paul calls the body “dead” because it is mortal. Furthermore, it is because of this mortality that the lack of earthly things troubles the soul and arouses certain desires, to which the man who serves the law of God in his mind does not submit and sin. AUGUSTINE ON ROMANS 50.

AUGUSTINE: Paul shows that both life and death exist in a man living in his body—death in his body, life in his spirit. THE CITY OF GOD 20.15.

CARNAL DEATH AND SPIRITUAL LIFE. PELAGIUS: If you imitate Christ the carnal mind offers no resistance, because it is effectively dead. The spirit lives in order to produce righteousness, for the aim is not just to stop doing carnal things but to start doing spiritual ones. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

YOUR SPIRITS ARE ALIVE BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. THEODORET OF CYR: Paul makes something which was doubtful clear and demonstrates that he is not attacking the flesh but sin. For he decreed that the body was dead to sin, i.e., that it should not sin. But here he calls the soul spirit, because it has already become spiritual. He commands it to follow after righteousness, whose fruit is the hope of eternal life. INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

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