ACC ~ Romans 8 v6

CHRIST IS LIFE. ORIGEN: Whoever interprets the law according to the flesh, i.e., according to the letter, does not come to Christ, who is life. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

SET THE MIND ON THE SPIRIT. MARIUS VICTORINUS: “To set the mind on the Spirit is life.” For error, imprudence and ignorance are impassioned, self-rebellious, self-contradictory. And because of this “to set the mind on the flesh,” which is imprudence, is death, because it does not know God. Therefore, “to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.” AGAINST ARIUS 3.C.1.

THE SUPPOSED WISDOM OF THE FLESH. AMBROSIASTER: The wisdom of the flesh is death because sin is serious and it is through sin that this death comes. It is called wisdom, even though it is a foolish thing, because to worldly people sins against the law of God which are conceived, whether in thought or in deed, on the basis of what is visible appear as wisdom, especially because those who sin are full of energy and cleverness. The fact that they take so much trouble over it makes them appear wise, even though there is nothing more foolish than sinning. Moreover, there is yet another wisdom of the flesh which, puffed up as it is by earthly reasoning, denies the possibility of miracles. Therefore it laughs at the virgin birth and at the resurrection of the flesh. The wisdom of the Spirit, on the other hand, is true wisdom which leads to life and peace. … Paul did not say that the flesh is hostile but rather that “the wisdom of the flesh” is. “The wisdom of the flesh” means, in the first place, any argument about the unknown which men have come up with and, in the second place, a preference for what can be seen. Both these things are hostile to God because they make the Lord of the elements and the Creator of the world equal to what he has made and assert that nothing can happen unless there is a rational cause for it. For this reason they deny that God made a virgin give birth or that he raises the bodies of the dead. They say that it is absurd that God should do anything beyond what man can understand, and therefore he did not do it. … These people are so blinded that they do not see how greatly they are insulting God, for the work which he was pleased to do in order that his praise should be proclaimed they condemn and claim is unbelievable and absurd. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

PELAGIUS: Paul says elsewhere that it is human wisdom to repay evil for evil.Such wisdom obtains death because it transgresses the commandment. But the wisdom of the Spirit enjoys peace now because it does not repay in kind, and in the future it will obtain eternal life. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

LIFE AND PEACE. GENNADIUS OF CONSTANTINOPLE: “Death” is estrangement and punishment from God; “life” is immortality and “peace” is fellowship with him. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

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