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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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
Perhaps some people will think that “the body of sin” is meant to refer to our earthly flesh, which has been joined to the soul as a kind of punishment, in that the soul sinned before bodies were created. Some people think and talk like this, but as it is a pagan idea we must reject it as being incompatible with the truth. Therefore, Paul says that our earthly body is the body of sin and our old man, because it has inherited the necessity of corruption from the old Adam…. Moreover, because of its weakness it has contracted a love for wickedness, and thus sin appears in the flesh as a congenital defect. We were crucified with Christ at the moment when his flesh was crucified, because it somehow included universal human nature in itself, just as universal human nature contracted the sickness of the curse in Adam at the same time that he incurred the curse. .
