Romans 8:9

But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

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 abovementioned 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. Fo... Read More

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Wherefore also he has added, "neither yet are ye now able, for ye are still carnal "minding the things of the flesh,-desiring, loving, feeling jealousy, wrath, envy. "For we are no more in the flesh". To whom speaks the Lord? To those who reject as far as possible all that is of man. And the apostle says, "For ye are not any longer in the flesh, but in the Spirit."

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Clement Of Rome

AD 99

Of the flesh. "In those who are truly believers, and "in whom the Spirit of Christ dwells"

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Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604

And Paul in his Epistle to the Romans says "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you."

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

"For ye "he declares, "are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.". And again he declares, "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you."

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

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.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

“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.

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