Since you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
In fleshy tables of the heart. Not in hard stone, as was the law of Moses, but in a heart tender, soft, and teachable. There is an allusion to Jeremiah 32:33. The Apostle, we should notice, makes a distinction between σάÏκινος, used here, and οαÏκικός: the first denotes the natural condition of flesh—its softness, &c.; the other that which has the vices and corruptions of flesh. Cf. Romans 7:14 and 1 Corinthians 3:3. Other writers, however, do not observe this distinction. Nazianzen, e.g, applies the latter of these terms to the incarnation and manhood of Christ.