For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
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Jerome
AD 420
Note that the church is never called the flesh but always the body of Christ. Whatever lives according to the flesh must necessarily be embodied. That is true. But it is not true that whatever is body is consequently living according to the flesh. –.