For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Nothing is truer than this, that if we live according to Adam we shall die. For by sinning Adam was consigned to the flesh and sold himself to sin, for all sin is oriented to the flesh…. The body wants to be governed by the law of the spirit, which is why Paul shows that if we are led by the Holy Spirit the acts and desires of the flesh, which are made up by the instigation of the powers of this world, are repressed so as to be unable to act. Then we shall enjoy eternal life. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
