Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
For that must be living after the world, which, as the old man, he declares to be "crucified with Christ".
Besides, if we do not understand it in this sense, it is not our bodily frame which has been transfixed (at all events), nor has our flesh endured the cross of Christ; but the sense is that which he has subjoined, "that the body of sin might be made void, ".
by an amendment of life, not by a destruction of the substance, as he goes on to say, "that henceforth we should not serve sin; "
