ACC ~ Romans 8 v9

WHETHER THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND OF CHRIST ARE DISTINGUISHED. ORIGEN: Is the Spirit of God somehow different from the Spirit of Christ, or are the two one and the same? As far as I can follow the logic of this passage, not to mention what the Savior says of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel, viz., that “he proceeds from the Father” and “he receives of me,” to which he adds by way of explanation: “Father, everything which is mine is yours, and everything which is yours is mine; wherefore I said, that he receives of me.”When, I say, I consider the logic of this unity between the Father and the Son, it seems to me that the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ are one and the same Spirit.

We can understand this to mean that someone who is not of such a character as to deserve to have the Spirit of Christ is not recognized as belonging to him. … It may also be understood to mean that anyone who does not act in the Spirit, who is not prepared for righteousness, for truth, for the proclamation of the Word of God, for the preaching of the kingdom of heaven, for rejecting the letter of the law and for opening up its spirit, for resisting sin, for everything which will prevent him from coming to death, is not Christ’s disciple. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

THOSE IN THE SPIRIT. AMBROSIASTER: Those who are said to be in the Spirit are not in the flesh if they agree with the apostle John and do not love the world. … Paul speaks somewhat ambiguously because those who have been inducted into the law do not yet have a perfect faith, although Paul saw a hope of perfection in them. For this reason he sometimes speaks to them as if they are perfect and sometimes as if they are yet to become perfect. This is why sometimes he praises them and sometimes he warns them, so that if they maintain the law of nature according to what has been said above they will be said to be in the Spirit, because the Spirit of God cannot dwell in anyone who follows carnal things.

Here Paul says that the Spirit of God is the Spirit of Christ, for everything which belongs to the Father belongs to the Son as well. Therefore he says that whoever is subject to the above-mentioned sins does not belong to Christ. Such a person does not have the Spirit of God, even if he has accepted that Christ is God’s Son. For the Holy Spirit abandons people for one of two reasons, either because they think carnally or because they act carnally. Therefore he exhorts them to good behavior by the things which he commands. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

[PSEUDO-]CONSTANTIUS: Here Paul reveals that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of both the Father and the Son. THE HOLY LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

THINGS GOOD AND BAD. CHRYSOSTOM: Some things are good, some are bad and some are indifferent. The soul and the flesh both belong to things indifferent, since each of these may become either good or bad. But the spirit belongs to things which are good and can never become anything else. Likewise, the mind of the flesh, i.e., wickedness, belongs to things which are always bad. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 13.

YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH. CHRYSOSTOM: “You are not in the flesh” not because you are not clad in flesh but because in spite of being clad in flesh you rise above the thinking of the flesh. HOMILIES ON GENESIS 22.10.

THE SENSE IN WHICH THE SPIRIT DWELLS IN YOU. PELAGIUS: You are in the Spirit because you are occupied with spiritual things. The Spirit of God dwells in those in whom his fruit is manifest, as Paul says to the Galatians: “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, etc.”The Spirit of Christ, who loved his enemies and prayed for them, is the Spirit of humility, patience and all the virtues. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS. OECUMENIUS: The Spirit is common to the Father and the Son. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

SEVERIAN: By “Spirit of God” Paul here refers to the spiritual gifts of the New Testament. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

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