Romans 8:10

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And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

Paul asserts that the bodies of those whom the Holy Spirit has abandoned because of sin are dead, nor does the feeling of their murder touch him, i.e., the Spirit. For the Spirit of God cannot sin. He is given for righteousness in order to make people righteous by his assistance. If a believer returns to the life of the flesh, the Holy Spirit will leave him and he will die in his unrighteousness. In saying “the body” Paul means that the whole person will die because of sin. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Paul shows that both life and death exist in a man living in his body— death in his body, life in his spirit.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Paul calls the body “dead” because it is mortal. Furthermore, it is because of this mortality that the lack of earthly things troubles the soul and arouses certain desires, to which the man who serves the law of God in his mind does not submit and sin.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Quando enim sanctificatum fuerit Deo, "Spiritus ejus "infert, "qui suscitavit Jesum a mortuis, habitat in vobis: qui vivificabit etiam mortalia vestra corpora, per ejus Spiritum, qui habitat in vobis.". "Et ad versus nobilitatem et ad versus libertatem, qum exsecrabiliter ab iis, qui sunt diversae sententiae, introducitur, qui de libidine gloriantur, subjungit dicens: "Non enim accepistis spiritum servitutis rursus in timorein, sed accepistis spiritum adoptionis filiorum, in quo clamamus, Abba Pater; "

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit dwelling in you."

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Paul is not saying here that the Spirit is Christ but is showing rather that anyone who has the Spirit has Christ as well. For where the Spirit is, there Christ is also. Wherever one person of the Trinity is present, the whole Trinity is present too. For the Trinity is undivided and has a perfect unity in itself.

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

Likewise, if "the body indeed is dead because of sin "(from which statement we see that not the death of the soul is meant, but that of the body), "but the spirit is life because of righteousness"

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